Classical Music Reviews
To Hell With You: Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust at the Proms
As his Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) in Pappano’s LSO performance proved conclusively (August 15), there are fewer if any better spaces to hold Berlioz’ monumental imagination. From the religious to Goethe’s great work of […]
ORA Singers’ Graduate Composers: five young composers have their work showcased at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
ORA Singers’ Graduate Composers‘ scheme forms a core part of their Composers’ Pathway – their work to support composers at any stage in their careers. The Graduate scheme champions early-career composers by offering them a […]
moon landing: composer Helen Caddick & textile artist Margo Selby’s immersive cross-genre piece
Composer Helen Caddick and textile artist Margo Selby collaborated on an immersive cross-genre piece, moon landing, for Collect 2024 at Somerset House. [see my article] As part of the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery (which closes […]
Richard Strauss, Elektra at the Edinburgh International Festival
It was this performance that stood out most of all when the EIF brochure was issued last autumn. Richard Strauss’s second opera based on Sophocles and his first collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal succeeded in […]
Classical Music News
AVIE maps an American pulse before an autumn of contrasts
NEWS • 7 August 2026 • Source: AVIE Records AVIE Records has opened its late-summer schedule with Rhythm Nation, a new album from New York’s PUBLIQuartet that treats rhythm as a meeting place rather than a boundary. Contemporary commissions […]
LSO Associate Artists reshape the concert format this autumn
NEWS • 4 August 2026 • Source: Baxter PR / London Symphony Orchestra Three autumn projects from London Symphony Orchestra collaborators will bring choral theatre, multidisciplinary performance and orchestral jazz to LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican. Tangram and […]
£200,000 Wolfson grant advances Smith Square restoration
NEWS • 3 August 2026 • Source: Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square has secured a £200,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation for the restoration of its Grade I listed Westminster home. The award supports Doors Open: Transforming Lives […]
Join Us Wishing Our Managing Director A Very Happy 60th Birthday!!
Chris Caspell, 60 not out. Away from taxing matters, music is an important part of his life – as a viola-player, conductor, and entrepreneur. He also sings, mostly in church choirs, and, like Fred Astaire, […]
