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By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust – Les Siècles – BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Mark Allan) Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust; John Osborn, Véronique Gens, Gerard Finley, Chœur de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France, Les […]
Barefoot Magic at Dalston: Mirka Zemanová reports on Zauberflöte
Last week’s five sold-out performances of The Magic Flute at Arcola Theatre (25 – 29 August, 2026, within the framework of the annual Grimeborn Festival, July to September) have shown how much impact such productions can make, even at small […]
Drawn to stories that intersect the political & cultural worlds: Anthony Davis’s opera The Central Park Five released on disc by Long Beach Opera
Anthony Davis: The Central Park Five – Long Beach Opera 2022 (Photo: JJ Geiger) I first came across the case of the Central Park Five when I read Joan Didion’s essay Sentimental Journeys first published in the […]
Debussy Piano Duets Vol 2: Mercier & Lortie
Volume Two of Hélène Mercier and Louis Lortie’s series of Debussy piano duets on Chandos launches with one of the most famous openings of all, that of the Prélude de l’après-midi d’une faune, after Mallarmé, […]
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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, […]
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