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 […]
Baba Yaga: Songs & Dances of Death – Sholto Kynoch, Ana Dordevic, Carola Schwab, Rowan Hellier – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) Baba Yaga: Songs and Dances of Death – Elena Langer, Mussorgsky, […]
Oliver Johnston Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Shostakovich: Six romances on texts by Japanese poets, Elena Langer: Two Mandelstam Songs, Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Oliver Johnston, Natalie BurchShostakovich: A life in Song: Philip Ross Bullock, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Schubert: Trout Quintet – Mikhail Kopelman, Loïc Rio, Laurent Marfaing, François Kieffer, Grigory Kovalevsky, Elisabeth Leonskaja (Photo © Nathanael Charpentier / © Association La Clé des Portes) First concert (presented by Clément Rochefort)JS Bach: Cello […]
Jess Gillam, Tom Fetherstonhaugh & Fantasia Orchestra in rehearsal (Photo: Fantasia Orchestra) In May last year I chatted conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh [see my interview] about Fantasia Orchestra which he founded way back in 2016 (when he […]
Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 71, Moods, Op. 73, Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46, transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41 – Alexander Ullmann – Rubicon Classics RCD 1129 Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 65, Op. 68, Op. 73 – Ziad Kreidy (historic piano) – Bandcamp Two […]
The Foundling Hospital chapel where Handel presented Messiah annually Cities change and cities develop. Which means that a festival that seeks to celebrate Handel in the city of his adoption constantly needs to reinvent itself. There are […]
