The Royal College of Music gets in early with marking Ravel’s 150th-anniversary next year with this presentation of L’heure espagnole, although it completes a wider arc in that it presented his other, later one-Act opera in […]
This was an auspicious start to the relationship between the Bournemouth Symphony and its recently appointed Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. And in the first of five programmes this season at Poole with him, the BSO […]
A frequent visitor to the Philharmonic, having appeared with the orchestra over 150 times since his debut in 1978, Yefim Bronfman was a commanding presence on the as he delivered aglowing performance of Beethoven’s C-minor […]
A frequent visitor to the Philharmonic, having appeared with the orchestra over 150 times since his debut in 1978, Yefim Bronfman was a commanding presence on the as he delivered aglowing performance of Beethoven’s C-minor […]
Two years after the Berliner Philharmoniker’s last visit to Carnegie Hall, the orchestra was back with Kirill Petrenko, opening with a rivetingaccount of The Isle of the Dead, Rachmaninoff’s tone poem inspired by a black […]
Returning to the Philharmonic for the first time in 20 years, John Adams led a thoughtfully curated program devoted largely to celebrating American rural and urban scapes. Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, mourning the […]
This program exploring different stages of life opened with Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth, 2019, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the New World Symphony. The title pays homage to the young musicians of the NWS, […]
Among 20th century English composers, Rutland Boughton was once much more widely known than he is today, principally for two achievements – founding the first music festival at Glastonbury in 1914, intended to act as […]
The first half of this intriguing and memorable concert was taken up by Luca Francesconi’s Duende: The Dark Notes. Leila Josefowicz collaborated with the composer during the writing of the piece, which she premiered in […]
Jonathan Miller’s production of Rigoletto for English National Opera is now over 40 years old – and this is its 14th revival – but it’s still a classic. Miller’s note in the programme from the […]
