Next month, Helsinki-based mezzo-soprano, pianist and composer Maria Konoshenko releases Walkabout, the first official single from her forthcoming song cycle, Songs of Exile. The full album is scheduled for release in later this year on Michael […]
Steel City Choristers at Berlin Dom Last week, Steel City Choristers, the Sheffield charity pioneering a new grassroots cathedral-style choir, celebrated its 5th birthday. Steel City Choristers formed following the closure of Sheffield Cathedral Choir […]
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Continuo Foundation grantee Chelys Consort with Gwendolen Martin (soprano) & David de Winter (tenor) at Banbury Early Music Festival in September 2025 (Photo: Daniel Meikle) The Continuo Foundation is inviting UK-wide applications for its 11th round […]
Goldmark: The Queen of Sheba Suite; American Romantics, Kevin SherwinReviewed 26 January 2026 Highly popular during his lifetime and up until the 1930s, Goldmark’s first opera has languished rather. Here revived in an abbreviated concert suite, […]
Mozart: Don Giovanni at Wateerperry Opera Festival in 2025 (Photo: Julian Guidera) Waterperry Opera Festival has announced details of its 2026 season, the first under new artistic director John Savournin. Headline productions are Puccini’s La […]
Sounds of Blossom returns to Kew Gardens this spring, from Saturday 14 March to Monday 6 April 2026. A collaboration between Kew Gardens and the Royal College of Music will see the colourful flowering trees in Kew’s […]
This year the Roundhouse is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the venue’s resurrection. Used as a performing arts venue from 1964, it was largely unused after 1983 and reopened in 2006 after a multi-million pound […]
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition peasants Manami Suzuki King’s Place, London, 23.01.2026 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (WTC Book II) Szymanowski Metopy, Op. […]
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition peasants Manami Suzuki King’s Place, London, 23.01.2026 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (WTC Book II) Szymanowski Metopy, Op. […]
Mostly with Mahler the old problem is stood on its ahead. Performances, even those of the unfinished Tenth, have become so frequent than it can be difficult to recapture the excitement they once engendered. Tweaked […]
