Brriten Albert Herring Cast; Orchestra of English National Opera / Daniel Cohen (conductor). Coliseum, London, 13.10.2025 Production: Director/Designer: Antony McDonald Lighting: Matthew Richardson Costume Associate: Iloa Karas Cast: Albert Herring Caspar Singh Sid Dan D’Souza […]
From Premier Classical: The winners of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025 were revealed tonight [15 October 2025] at a glittering ceremony at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.Long regarded as the classical recording […]
Johannes Worms in the Gemäldegalerie – State Museums of Berlin (Photo: Jana Kiesser) The young German baritone Johannes Worms has been exploring the wider shores of song, presenting programmes that focus on playful explorations of queerness and […]
A new collaboration between Orpheus Sinfonia and the Scherzo Ensemble invites the audience to be part of Mozart’s memorial service, taking part by singing a hymn and surrounded on all sides by the musical and […]
There’s a lot of Dvořák around in my pile of discs suddenly … The LPO’s live series of disc has furnished us with Dvořák 7 coupled with Schuman Second. The LPO delivers a terrific, driven […]
Daniele Gatti, Berlin Philharmonic – Philharmonie, Berlin Webern: Langsamer Satz, Stravinsky: Symphony in C, Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, cond: Daniele Gatti; Philharmonie, BerlinReviewed by Tony Cooper on 9 October […]
James Larter In July this year, percussionist James Larter joined Frederick Waxman and his ensemble Figure to reimagine Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons for an array of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments alongside the strings. Now […]
Britten: Albert Herring – Dan D’Souza, Caspar Singh – ENO 2025 (Photo: Genevieve Girling) Britten: Albert Herring; Caspar Singh, Emma Bell, Carolyn Dobbin, Aoife Miskelly, Eddie Wade, Mark Le Brocq, Andri Björn Róbertsson, Dan D’Souza, […]
Having re-worked Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea earlier this year [see composer Michael Betteridge’s article], Southampton-based OperaUpClose has announced that its next project will be a reimagined version of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Gianni Schicchi (or Where […]
Malcolm Arnold This year the Malcolm Arnold Festival in Northampton celebrates the 20th festival and on 18 and 19 October 2025, there will be performances of all 20 of Arnold’s concerts that feature a solo […]
