We met Huw Watkins (seen by some as the leading Welsh composer of his generation) at Milton Court recently, for the World Premiere of his Horn Concerto. That was not Classical Explorer’s first reportage of […]
Samantha Clarke (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) Mozart in 1774 – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 28 & 30, Bassoon Concerto, music from La finta giardiniera, music from Paisiello’s Andromeda; Samantha Clarke, Jane Gower, The Mozartists, Ian Page; Wigmore HallReviewed […]
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev in Aberdeen (Photo: Christopher Bowen) The 2024/25 season sees Maxim Emelyanychev returning for his sixth season as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) with nine concerts, both as […]
We met violinist Fenella Humphreys before in a disc of works for violin and piano by Sibelius (in which she was joined by the ever-excellent pianist Joseph Tong). Here she is, toute seule, offering a […]
Five years on, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra returned to Carnegie Hall now with its new Chief Conductor. In line with the ‘Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice’, the concert opened with […]
European Union Chamber Orchestra King’s Lynn Festival’s annual celebration of all things Early Music, its Early Music Day will be returning to St Nicholas’ Chapel on Saturday 20 July featuring a lunchtime organ recital with […]
Monteverdi I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth (director / organ). Wigmore Hall, 1 pm, 29.04.2024 O primavera, gioventù dell’anno, SV 68 (publ. 1592) ‘Rimanti in pace’ a dolente e bella, SV 74 (publ. 1592) Lamento della […]
Melodrama as a dramatic musical genre has a somewhat patchy history. Whilst Mozart would say of Georg Benda’s melodramas ‘I love these two works so much that I carry them with me’, and indeed works like […]
Willem Wissing (1656-87) – Mary II (1662-94) when Princess of Orange c.1686-87 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust RCIN 405643) A Choral Celebration of Queen Mary II: Clarke, Blow, Purcell, Handel; chapel choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, […]
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s 2024/25 season is its third with chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Wigglesworth will be directing Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and a new work by Helen Grime, along with playing the solo part […]
