Classical Music Reviews
Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang: An Unsung Masterpiece
It is Mendelssohn’s Third and Fourth Symphonies that get all the attention. Yes, there is power in nicknames (Scottish and Italian respectively), but the fifth has one too and I can count performances I’ve heard […]
Memories are made of this: Tugan Sokhiev & Vienna Philharmonic in Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, plus Debussy & Ravel with Lang Lang in Salzburg
Tugan Sokhiev, Vienna Philharmonic – Salzburg Festival (Photo: Marco Borrelli) Ravel: Piano Concerto in G, Debussy: La Mer, Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (excerpts); Lang Lang, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Tughan Sokhiev; Salzburg Festival at Grosses FestspielhausReviewed […]
New York and London combined: Salonen conducts 20th-Century classics
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements (1942-5) Berg Violin Concerto, “Zum andenken eines Engels” (1935) Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116 (1943, rev. 1945) Back at the Proms, players from Juilliard Orchestra and the Royal Academy […]
News Item: Benjamin Nicholas brings Choirs of Merton College Oxford on tour to Germany & North America
Girl Choristers make debut at Bach’s churches in Leipzig: 26 August 2026, 5pm – Lutherkirche, Leipzig (Informal Concert) 27 August, 7:30pm – Nikolaikirche, Leipzig 29 August, 6pm – Berliner Dom The Girl Choristers of […]
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, […]
