Classical Music Reviews
Maxim Emelyanychev celebrates 7 seasons with Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a year that includes new music by Jay Capperauld, Helen Grime, Jörg Widmann and Magnus Lindberg
Maxim Emelyanychev and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Amazingly, 2025/26 will be Maxim Emelyanychev’s seventh season as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and he will be presenting ten programme with the orchestra during the season, along […]
Up close and personal: David Butt Philip & Friends Gala at St Paul’s Opera, Clapham
David Butt Philip & Friends Gala – David Butt Philip – St Paul’s Opera, Clapham‘Falke, falke, du wiedergefundener’ from Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten David Butt Philip & Friends Gala: Bizet, Gounod, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, […]
Premieres from Gavin Higgins’ and Arthur Bliss, rare Michael Tippett, Eric Whitacre in residence: Ryedale Festival 2025
Ryedale Festival at Lastingham Church The Ryedale Festival is in its 44th year and under the guidance of pianist Christopher Glynn, returns from 11 to 27 July 2025 for 57 performances in 33 spectacular locations […]
Pure enjoyment: Peter Moore & Tredegar Band give the first recording of Simon Dobson’s concerto for Moore alongside works paying tribute to trombonists like Arthur Pryor, Don Lusher & Tommy Dorsey
Arthur Pryor, Gordon Langford, Phoebe Palmer Knapp, Erik William Gustav Leidzén, George Bassman, Simon Dobson, Philip Sparke; Peter Moore, Tredegar Band, Ian Porthouse; Chandos RecordsReviewed 28 March 2025 Trombonist Peter Moore joins forces with Tredegar […]
Classical Music News
Martha Argerich has nothing to say
A long time ago I was advised that anyone who wants to get an interview with Margerich needs to hang around with her a few times at three in the morning and she might, eventually, […]
Turin jump-in for Luisi
The Belgian/American conductor Giulio Cilona, 29, is stepping in for Maestro Fabio Luisi who has withdrawn for family reasons at the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Torino. He will conduct Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto […]
Munich loses Mirga
Message from the Munich Philharmonic: This week we are going on tour to Musikverein Wien & Müpa Budapest but Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla unfortunately had to cancel our upcoming concert tour due to an urgent family situation. […]
Covent Garden wants my money again
In 1999, I named a seat at the Royal Opera House after my eldest sister. She had been a devoted operagoer in the 1950s and my kid brother’s nod to her past happiness was much […]
