Nicola Benedetti (Image: Andrew Perry) Under the title All Rise, this year’s Edinburgh International Festival is presenting 24 days of performances from 7 to 30 August 2026. Nicola Benedetti’s fourth programme as Festival Director features […]
Ina Boyle Ina Boyle: a Rediscovery, songs by Ina Boyle, Charles Wood, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy; Ailish Tynan, Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Iain Burnside; Wigmore HallReviewed 10 March 2026 An exploration of Irish composer […]
Bach: St John Passion – Nick Pritchard, Peter Whelan, Konstantin Krimmel, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists – St Martin in the Fields (Photo: Paul Marc Mitchell) Bach: St John Passion; Nick Pritchard, Konstantin Krimmel, Julia […]
R. Strauss, Saint-Saens, Brahms Bertrand Chamayou (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 6.03.2026 Richard Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20 (1888/89) Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 105, ‘Egyptian’ […]
Several months ago, I wrote a piece on this blog complaining about the price of CDs these days. So how are things going these days? Well, things just seem to keep getting worse. In fact, […]
Prach Boondiskulchok Composer Prach Boondiskulchok is perhaps as well known as a pianist, as part of the Linos Piano Trio [see my review of their 2023 disc, Maurice Ravel: In search of lost dance] but that […]
Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci (c. 1773) (Photo: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts) The Trials of Tenducci: Mozart, Johann Christian Bach, Gluck, Thomas Arne, Johann Christian Fischer, Tommaso Giordani; Hugh Cutting, Peter […]
South Cotswold Big Sing Group Artistic director Jack Bazalgette has announced the full programme for the 81st Cheltenham Music Festival which runs from 3 to 11 July 2026. Bazalgette, promises “a chance to bring all […]
Riana Duncan cartoon from Punch (1988) – From Flickr Women and power: Maddalena Casulana, Isabella de’ Medici, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Settimia Caccini, Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Claudia Sessa, Errollyn Wallen; Nardus Williams, Elizabeth Kenny, Mary […]
Edward Lambert: In Five Years’ Time – James Schouten, Chris Murphy – The Music Troupe (Photo: Claire Shovelton) Edward Lambert: In Five Years’ Time; James Schouten, Rosalind Dobson, Mae Heydorn, Lucy Gibbs, Fiona Hymns, Jean-Max […]
