Feminine Voices at Christmas
This years’ Christmas stack is tuning out to contain some exceptional releases, and this one is surely near or even at the top of the pile. This particular disc was relased on Halloween, so is […]
Classical Explorer
The other Adams, again!
We have met John Luther Adams previously on Classical Explorer via his extraodinary Become Ocean (2013: the BBC Symphony Orchestra live at the Barbican under Dalia Stasevska). Elsewhere, on the Fanfare Archive, you can find […]
A Charpentier Baroque Christmas & A New Era: The Monteverdi Choir & Christophe Rousset
Recorded in the middle of a European tour of December 2024 at All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London, this recording makes the debut of the acclaimed Montevedi Choir and Christophe Rousset. It is good to […]
Weckmann Sonatas on cpo
This is fascinating: it reminded me so much of the amazing Les Éléments concert in Périgord last summer; music of openness and exuberance of invention. Matthias Weckmann seemed to be pulled towards Dresden as if […]
Adila Fachiri, Marie Soldat and … one Donald Francis Tovey
So what’s the big deal hee? Two violinists on one disc, one of them – Adila Fachirri – performing with Donald Francis Tovey, he of the Essays in Musical Analysis. Toccata Classics has released recordings […]
St John’s Cambridge Choir returns: O Holy Night
The choral tradition of excellence at St John’s College, Cambridge carries on under Christopher Gray, continuing the work of Andrew Nethsingha. Adophe Adam’s O holy night will need little introduction, but what a lovey arrangement […]
Elisabeth Leonskaja returns in Beethoven
We met Elisabeth Leonskaja in Grieg and Schumann with another Michael, Michael Sanderling, previously in the time-honoured coupling of Grieg and Schumann Concertos here. On the new disc, it is Michael Schønwandt who conducts the […]
“A Festival with a Mission”: Aix Easter Festival 2026 announced
So the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival 2026! The official release is below, to which I would add a few highlights: It is good to see Yuliana Adveeva on the books, a pianist who hs impressed in […]
The Music of Sergej Maingardt
It is important to listen to consider and absorb the music of our time. For some hat means a post-Modern construct; which can be relatively easy on the ear; for others (I remember, notably in […]
Manchester Camerata at Wigmore Hall
It’s amazing what can change in three quarters of an a hour. This short lunchtime concert at Wigmore Hall preesnted some remarkable music in superb performances: the known, the lesser-known and the (probably) unknown. But […]
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