Teodor Doré: Flow Interrupted It’s not often that I write about the London Festival of Architecture, but on 5 June 2026 Renaissance-21 is presenting Flow Interrupted, a prepared piano performance by Teodor Doré at Roca […]
Alessandro Taverna & Francesca Dego Korngold: Violin Sonata, Schoenberg: Phantasy, Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata; Francesca Dego, Alessandro Taverna; Conway HallReviewed 31 May 206 Youthful Korngold and Strauss before he was Strauss in a remarkable pair of big late-romantic […]
Creative Minds in Song (2023) In this guest posting pianist Gavin Roberts, artistic director of Song in the City, introduces Creative Minds in Song. On Friday 5 June, audiences at St Giles Cripplegate will hear the […]
BBC Philharmonic & John Storgårds at Bridgewater Hall in 2024 (Photo: Chris Payne) The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s recently announced 2026/27 season spans from large-scale symphonic concerts at The Bridgewater Hall to more intimate performances at […]
Igor Levit & the Leonkoro Quartet in Heidelberg in 2024 (Photo: Studio Visuell) Henriëtte Bosmans: String Quartet, Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet; Igor Levit, Leonkoro Quartet; Wigmore HallReviewed 31 May 2026 A completely absorbing performance of the Schumann […]
The BBC Proms, the world’s largest classical-music festival, salutes the USA in this year’s edition marking 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. A feast of music like no other, the […]
Rossini Il Turco in Italia. Soloists: Glyndebourne Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bertie Baigent. Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 28.5.2026 Production: Director – Mariame Clément Revival Director – Ian Rutherford Designer – Julia Hansen Revival movement – […]
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in rehearsal – Ellie Neate, Danielle de Niese, Jack Sandison – Wild Arts (Photo: Anastasia Tikhonova) Wild Arts is a small but dynamic company that presents music and opera, touring […]
What with Glyndebourn’s fabulous Rossini Il turco in Italia (review to follow), it seems fitting that the symphony here is Wrantizky’s D-Major, “Con musica turca,” sitting firmly in the line of this “Orientalist” influence (think […]
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte – Osian Wyn Bowen, Madeline Boreham, Paul Grant – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Craig Fuller) Mozart: Cosi fan tutte: Madeline Boreham, Shakira Tsindos, Osian Wyn Bowen, Paul Grant, Elizabeth Karani, Paul Carey […]
