Classical Music Reviews
Seohyun Go wins the Guildhall Gold Medal
I was lucky enough to attend the Guildhall Godlier Medal last Thursday May 8). The announcement of the winner from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a follows: Guildhall School of Music & […]
Music at St Mary’s, Perivale: Nikita Lukinov
Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Babadjanian Nikita Lukinov (piano) Bach Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Well-Tempered Clavier Book I) Tchaikovsky The Seasons, Op. 37b: May; June Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. piano) […]
Alon Kariv plays Chopin at Cadogan Hall
Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann Alon Kariv (piano); English Chamber Orchestra / Roberto Forés Veses (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 11.05.2025 Mendelssohn Overture, ‘The Hebrides,’ Op. 26 (1829) Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 […]
A Hoffmann to remember: Angela Denoke’s production of Offenbach’s final masterpiece at Oldenburg Staatstheater with Jason Kim
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann – Dorothee Bienert, Jason Kim – Oldenburgisches Staatstheater Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann: Jason Kim, Dorothee Bienert, Penelope Kendros, Adréana Kraschewski, Raffaela Lintl, Eleonora Fabrizi, Seungweon Lee, dir: Angela Denoke; […]
Classical Music News
Ruth Leon recommends…. The Gershwins: Preserving an American Cultural Legacy – Michael Feinstein
The Gerhswins Michael Feinstein is a beloved cabaret performer, pianist, singer and conductor whose encyclopaedic knowledge of, and performance of, the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, among many others, has entertained us for many […]
Two Queens slug it out in Budapest
The insult was so potent that the first performance of Donizetti’s historical tragedy, Maria Stuarda, was cancelled at the last minute in Naples through royal intervention. A toned-down revision went awry at La Scala the […]
More white smoke: Cleveland has a concertmaster
The orchestra has just let is be known that Joel Link of the Dover Quartet is to be its new concertmaster, starting in July. The seat was vacated in March last year by David Radzynski, […]
Death of famed tenor, 98
Italian media have reported the death today in Mariano Comense of the great Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva. Arriving in Milan in 1953 after serving in the Preuvian navy, Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo trained at […]
