Stagings of Bach Passions are, if not the norm, certainly not unknown; and Insula showed how effective known music with projection can be in Mat Collishaw’s Sky Burial, a film response to Fauré’s Requiem. Insula’s Brahms […]
In search of Youkali: The songs of Kurt Weill; Katie Bray, William Vann, Murray Grainger, Marianne Schofield; CHANDOSReviewed 20 January 2026 A profoundly satisfying and intelligently put together recital tracing Weill from Weimar Germany to […]
The 2025 Young Composers’ Workshop with ORA Singers The vocal ensemble, ORA Singers, has opened applications for its seventh national Young Composers’ programme. This offers secondary students free composition coaching with professional composers, and the […]
The Radio 4 Appeal is a weekly 3-minute programme highlighting the work of a charity and appealing for donations to support its activities. This week the focus is on the Benedetti Foundation, with a short […]
Federico García Lorca finished his play Así que pasen cinco años in 1931, five years to the day before he was executed. If was never produced during Lorca’s lifetime and he said it would be impossible […]
This afternoon (19 January 2026) SWAP’ra’s wonderfully enterprising Rebecca Clarke Song Competition reaches its semi-final rounds as 17 duos compete for a place in the final, which takes place at the Royal Overseas League on Saturday […]
Manuscript score, signed by the composer and the performers of the premiere One of England’s greatest choral works, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, has excitingly been put centre stage in Alan Bennett’s brand-new film The […]
This was recital progamming of the very highest level, the first half a cycle of lullabies; the second a celehration of the female creatrix in Her various forms. It all opened with a fisher […]
Martha Argerich at KKL Luzern (Photo: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.5 No.2, Violin Sonata in major Op.47 ‘Kreuzer’, Debussy: En blanc et noire, Prelude a l’apres-midid d’un faune; Mischa Maisky, Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Stephen […]
Anglican repertoire is the subject of this disc, a sequence of English anthems both rousing and touching. The Choir of Merton College, Oxford enter in absolutely full voice of Elgar’s”Light out of darkness” (from the […]
