Following on from Brett Dean’s Wigmore Concert (we published my report just two days ago) here we have Dean’s take on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 73, the so-called “Emperor,” A […]

Everyday Non-sense; works by Shiomi, Schmit, Higgins, Mozart, Kurtág, Cage, PatKop, Françaix and Ligei Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/voice/vacuum cleaner); members of Aurora Orchestra. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 24.04.2024 The force of […]

The Stratford-upon-Avon based ensemble Orchestra of the Swan is one of the most inventive groups around in the UK today – this extends from their programming to their use of multimedia to the subjects they […]

Bach – Prelude in E minor, BWV 955a (transcribed Siloti) Brett Dean – Hommage à Bach (2010): Prélude; Hommage à Kurtág (2011); Music for Drakenstein – Two Etudes (2018, world première); Hommage à Janáček (2009); Hommage à Lutosławski (2017); Hommage à Bach (2010): Chorale; Faustian Pact (Hommage à Liszt) (2023, UK premiere) Brahms – Klavierstücke, […]

  Handel’s Arianna:  An unforgettable close to the London Handel Festival’s ‘Spring Awakenings’ festival  This is not the London Handel Festival’s first stab at Handel’s unjustly neglected opera, Arianna in Creta; it was previously staged […]