Classical Music Reviews
Charpentier’s tragédie en musique David et Jonathas, staged in London & the South for the first time by New Sussex Opera
New Sussex Opera’s (NSO) 2026 autumn touring production will be Charpentier’s tragédie en musique David et Jonathas. In five acts and a prologue, the work was written in 1688 for the Jesuits at the Collège […]
Drawing you into the drama: David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail returns to Glyndebourne
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Franck Saurel, Liv Redpath – Glyndebourne (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Liv Redpath, Anthony León, Michael Mofidian, Julie Roset, Thomas Cilluffo, Franck Saurel, director: […]
Voces amissæ: Ian Wilson’s Lost Voices
Anyone who thinks Modernist music can’t be beautiful in and of itself should hear this. Hushed, caressing, Ian Wilson’s Voces amissae (Lost Voices) is a contemporary masterpiece. Lost Voices sets poetry by Serbian poet Dragina […]
The Breaking Point: worlds connected by questions of pressure, identity & the forces that shape human behaviour. Contemporary opera from Royal Academy of Music composers at Tête à Tête
Four worlds connected by questions of pressure, identity and the forces that shape human behaviour: The Breaking Point brings together four distinct works in a single evening of contemporary music theatre. Created by Royal Academy […]
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, […]
