U.S. premiere of Vaja Azarashvili’s Cello Concerto at Merkin Hall in New York, featuring Sandro Sidamonidze as soloist with Orchestra for People and conductor Hahnsol Kim (Photo: Matthew Holler) Cellist Sandro Sidamonidze on a musical […]
David Önaç How Lloyd’s insurance contracts from the transatlantic slave trade became the unlikely inspiration for a new choral work for the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and BBC Singers. Composer David Önaç explains his Atlantic […]
David Fenessy: Blood – Jonathan Morton, Scottish Ensemble, Chamber Choir of NYCOS, Christopher Bell (Photo: Ed Maitland-Smith) Bach & Blood: Bach, Arvo Pärt, David Fenessy; Jonathan Morton, Scottish Ensemble, Chamber Choir of the National Youth Choir […]
Blair Coron Blair Coron is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet and intimate music blends modern classical, storytelling and traditional melodies, with themes of nature, people, time […]
This is a great opportunity to enjoy a terrifically inventive production of Tannhäuser from Tobias Kratzer, staged at the Wagner shrine of Bayreuth in 2019. From the off, it is clear this is no ordinary […]
Cloud Chamber: Gavin Greenaway & Caroline Dale (Photo: ottantotto) Cloud Chamber is the newly formed duo of Gavin Greenaway (piano) and Caroline Dale (cello), internationally renowned performers whose careers span film and concert music. As […]
This is a repost, to prepare the way for my upcoming post on Hans Werner Henze’s opera, Das verratene Meer. Contemporary music can seem forbidding. Back in the late twentieth century, the names of Pierre […]
There have been so few new releases which interested me this summer, I haven’t been buying many and, thus, haven’t been reviewing many. So it was with great anticipation that this one appeared on the […]
French composer Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955) was the daughter of an industrialist. Her early teachers included a pupil (and relation) of Cesar Franck whilst in 1903, her parents installed a Cavaillé‑Coll organ in the living room! […]
The Yellow Tie – Ben Schnetzer (Sergiu Celibidache) – director: Serge Ioan Celibidache, Oblique Media The Yellow Tie; Ben Schnetzer, John Malkovich, Kate Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Sean Bean, Olivia Popica, Tamzin Merchant, director: Serge Ioan […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "The Song Within: Leeds Song Festival returns in April 2027 with a programme expanding the boundaries of the song recital")
