Classical Music Reviews
Rare Bellini: La straniera
Bellini La strraniera (concert performance) Cast; Chorus and Orchestra of Chelsea Opera Group /. Stephen Barlow (conductor) Cadogan Hall, London, 01.06.2025 Cast: Alaide (La straniera) – Heena Dix Valdeburgo – Dan D’Souza Isoletta – […]
Dazzling aural journeys where the political commentary and sheer playfulness combine with a serious purpose: Anselm McDonnell’s Politics of the Imagination
Anselm McDonnell: Stop Small Boats, Politics of the Imagination, The Union is our God, Cross-Purposes; Crash Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Kosyne, Barrowclough, Joel the Custodian; Anselm McDonnell/BandcampReviewed 4 June 2025 Politics and playfulness thread their way through […]
Kirklees Concert Season 2025/26: Orchestra of Opera North’s year round concert season in Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls
Elena Urioste, Gary Walker & Orchestra of Opera North at Huddersfield Town Hall The Kirklees Concert Season is a year-round programme of concerts presented by Opera North and Kirklees Council in Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town […]
Festival of Musical Ideas: Gresham College holds inaugural festival fusing music with science and the humanities
Gresham College is hosting the inaugural Festival of Musical Ideas on Friday 20 June 2025 at the college in Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn. Gresham Professors will present a day of learning, exploration and music, fusing music with science and the […]
Classical Music News
Ruth Leon recommends… Sargent and Paris – Met & D’Orsay
Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a […]
Star trumpet: Chicago was troubled, Philadelphia more so
Principal trumpet Esteban Batallán has been telling Dennis Polkow why he left the Chicago Symphony for Philadelphia last year… and came back six months later. Batallán: ‘Somehow, I wanted to make sure I had a […]
IDRS maintains grants in face of death threats
You may read below a statement by the International Double Reed Society’s president Jacqueline Wilson, claiming that its directors and personnel have received death threats over a policy to restrict certain IDRS grants to ‘under-represented’ […]
Breaking: Ex-Cleveland concertmaster is Hamburg’s new leader
David Radzynski writes: ‘Excited to share that I’ve been appointed concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester!’ Radzynski, previously concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic, stayed less than two years in Cleveland. The NDR, with Alan Gilbert […]
