Facts: how opera is funded in England
Rising concern about Arts Cancel England (ACE) has prompted librarians at the House of Lords to prepare a really useful couple of charts on how opera has been centrally funded over the past eight years. […]
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The Jungle Book composer has died
The composer Richard M Sherman, who co-wrote wrote songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has died in Beverly Hills, aged 95. All his songs were written with his brother […]
Winchester Cathedral, you’re bringing me down
The suppurating discontent at one of England’s finest houses of worship burst into full flood in today’s Mail on Sunday. Sample: Winchester Cathedral is reeling from the controversy that has seen key figures leave, with […]
Sheffield’s Music in the Round at 20
Music In The Round: Saint-Saëns; The Renaissance Man Ensemble 360 / George Morton (conductor, L’assassinat du duc de Guise). Crucible Playhouse, 21.05.2024 Morceau de concert in F minor, Op. 94 / R 203 (1887) Bassoon […]
The Quest: London Youth Opera’s commission for 2024
Stuart Hancock: Pandora’s Box – London Youth Opera at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, 2023 (Photo: Nina Swann) Last December, London Youth Opera (LYO) presented Stuart Hancock and Donald Sturrock’s Pandora’s Box at the […]
REPOST: Edward German’s ‘Norwich’ Symphony
Best known these days (if at all) for his operetta Merrie England, Edward German (1862-1936) was once highly respected. Sir Arthur Sullivan once famously said of German that he was “the one man to follow […]
Ruth Leon recommends… The Merry Wives of Windsor – Digital Theatre
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Digital Theatre Click here to subscribe or rent The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play which is set in his own time with characters who would have […]
The Miro Quartet’s new CD is a mixed bag
The Miro Quartet has been around since 1995, and astonishingly, 3 out of the 4 original members are still part of the group today. (The current 2nd violinist joined them in 2011). They haven’t made many […]
Life, the universe and … Stephen Fry
The British actor narrates a cosmic new work by Sibelius descendant Lauri Porra. The composer’s wife conducts. You may well have heard it here first. The post Life, the universe and … Stephen Fry appeared […]
All the Bruckner symphonies… on an organ
Press release: Over the past four years (2020-2024), German conductor and organist Hansjörg Albrecht has recorded Bruckner’s complete symphonic oeuvre as a transcription for organ for the first time worldwide. This colossal project, entitled Anton […]
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