This is the first of two volumes of George Walker’s complete piano works; Alexandre Dossin is the beautifully sensitive pianist. Dossin has previously appeared on ax’s as par of their complete Liszt piano music, in […]
At his finest, Jonathan Biss is up there in the very top echelon of pianists. His speciality is Beethoven, a composer on whom he speaks and lectures as well as plays. We met his Orchid […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thorvaldsdottir, Ligeti, John Luther Adams BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dalia Stasevska (conductor). Barbican Hall, 8.10.2025 Thovaldsdottir ANCORA (2022) Ligeti Atmosphères (1961) John Luther Adams Become Ocean (2013) An extraordinary concert, but perhaps not in the way one might immediately think: to have three woks that rely mainly on texture is certainly out of the (ie, ‘extra’) […]
YO-YO MA & FRIENDS SHARE A COLLECTION OF NEW RECORDINGS INSPIRED BY THE OUR COMMON NATURE’ PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW FROM SONY CLASSICAL It was only recently we explored Yo-Yo Ma’s latest Trio release (with Kavakos […]
For his first recording for the Mirare label, Calabrian pianist Vittorio Forte has chosen a programme of South American music. A student of Argentinian pianist Jose Lepore, the present album is the result of the […]
Abrahamsen, Mahler Jennifer France (soprano); London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 03.10.2025 Hans Abrahamsen let me tell you (2013) Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G (1900) What wonderful programming; and an extra bonus to see Danish […]
L’OPÉRA EN STREAMING Paris, 23th September 2025 Discover the shows of the 25/26 season on POP – Paris Opera Play! Operas and ballets, live or recorded: this season, seven performances (including six new productions) and a […]
