The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth is on 16 December 2025. Musical celebrations, however, seem somewhat sparse and Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park apart, there seem to be few occasions where Austen’s text has found […]
Puccini: La Boheme – Opera North (Photo: Richard H Smith) Puccini: La boheme; Joshua Blue, Isabela Diaz, Katie Bird, Josef Jeongmeen Ahn, Han Kim, Sean Boylan, director: Phyllida Lloyd/James Hurley, conductor Catriona Beveridge; Opera North […]
This live recording form the Deutsches Museum in Munich on October 17, 1976 is core Bernstein, whose association with Munich dates from the early 1980s (from 1983, he conducted annually there). At the time, Joachim […]
Handel: Susanna – Anna Dennis – Opera North, Phoenix Dance Theatre (Photo: Tristram Kenton) Handel: Susanna; Anna Dennis, James Hall, Matthew Brook, Claire Lees, Colin Judson, Karl Haml, Opera North, Phoenix Dance Theatre, director: Olivia […]
James Pearson & Lizzie Ball (Photo: Monika C Jakubowska) In February 2026, the upstairs space at Ronnie Scott‘s will reopen as Upstairs at Ronnie’s, a newly reimagined 140-capacity music venue following a significant refurbishment. The […]
LSO Futures; Seong-Jin Cho Artist Portrait. Seong-Jin Cho (piano); London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conducto). Barbican Hall, London, 20.11.2025 Omri Kochavi gilufim (2024/25, LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Commission, World Premiere Sasha Scott Sly (2024/25, LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Commission, […]
Released on The Sixteen’s award-winning own label CORO, The Wise Men an the Star includes three World Premiere recoding (by Eric Whitacre, Cecilia McDowall, and the Sixteen’s own Kim Porter). The music, obviously pays homage […]
Several fantastic, musically inspiring releases have graced my listening room over the past couple of months, and it has been a pleasure hearing and writing about them here on my blog. But among those, there […]
When I spoke to composer Libby Croad earlier this year [see my interview, ‘Something juicy that you can get your teeth into’] she was just starting work on a new piece for the Dionysius Ensemble. […]
Hans Krasa: Brundibar – Kayla Farrell (Brundibar) – Sarasota Opera (Sarasota Youth Opera) Raise up your voice: Intolerance through the voices of children: Prologue created by Martha Collins and Jesse Martins, Hans Krasa: Brundibar; director: […]
