Classical Music Reviews
In my end is my beginning: Dmitri Tcherniakov directs Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto & Ulrich Rasch directs Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the 2025 Salzburg Festival
Salzburg – Hofstallgasse at Night (Photo: TSG Breitegger) For Markus Hinterhäuser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, the main theme of the 2025 Festival (18 July to 31 August 2025) can be summed up in […]
A glorious, yet sophisticated noise: Handel’s Solomon from Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli with Tim Mead as Solomon in Inner Temple Hall
Inner Temple Hall in its modern incarnation built in the 1950s Handel: Solomon; Tim Mead, Rowan Pierce, Hilary Cronin, Frances Gregory, Anna Dennis, James Way, Morgan Pearse, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh; Temple Music […]
The Simón Bolívar orchestra in London (1): Mahler’s Third
Mahler – Symphony No. 3. Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano); Tiffin Choirs Children’s Choir; London Symphony chorus; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15 January, 2025 The Simón Bolivar Symphony […]
A highly effective synthesis: James Joyce’s The Dead in a dramatised reading from Niamh Cusack with music from The Fourth Choir that underscored the emotional drama
The Dead – Niamh Cusack, The Fourth Choir, Jamie Powe – Wilton’s Music Hall (Photo: Kathleen Holman) The Dead: James Joyce, Sarah MacDonald, Rhona Clarke, Robert Parsons, Bellini, Aine Mallon, Joanna Marsh, Samuel Barber, Healey […]
Classical Music News
Gabriela Montero: I took in a refugee off the internet
In an interview on Zsoly Bognar’s Living the Creative Life, the Spanish-based pianist talks about how she helped a young singer to leave Venezuelan, took him in as a house guest and helped him to […]
Two composers sink into a warm bath
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: If you are about to step into a warm bath, put one of these on the player and submerse your January body in a fantasy world that never […]
Just in: Dudamel’s agent relinquishes all other artists
Gustavo Dudamel has only ever had one agent, an Englishman called Mark Newbanks. His firm, Fidelio Arts, has looked after at various times Yuja Wang, Lionel Bringuier and others, but Dudamel was always the main […]
Finnish conductors: A power list
There has been much chatter of late on this site and elsewhere on the predominance of Finns in the global podium. From a nation that conducts intense conversations chiefly with its shoelaces, this phenomenon is […]
