Schubert Birthday Concert – Ammiel Bushakevitz, Konstantin Krimmel – Wigmore Hall (Image from Live Stream) Schubert Birthday Concert: Schubert, Loewe; Konstantin Krimmel, Ammiel Bushakevitz; Wigmore HallReviewed 31 January 2025 Schubert’s Birthday at Wigmore Hall with […]
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2025 Antonio Salieri La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) (1773) Performances: The Deanery Garden, Bampto, Oxfordshire, Friday 18, Saturday 19 July Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 25 August The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex: Saturday […]
I’ve started the year with quite a few less-than-stimulating new Classical recordings released in the past couple of months. While many are attractive, offering enticing repertoire, several of them have left me feeling a bit […]
Jay Capperauld (Photo: Euan Robertson) The Scottish composer Jay Capperauld is currently the Scottish Chamber Orchestra‘s (SCO) Associate Composer and this month he has two sets of performances of his works. On 19 February SCO […]
Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette – Long Long, Kathryn Lewek – Palm Beach Opera, 2025 Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette Kathryn Lewek, Long Long, Bernardo Medeiros, director: Tara Faircloth, conductor: David Stern, Palm Beach Opera; Kravis Center for […]
One of the great choral works, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem is often thought of as a humanist requiem, a work for the bereaved passages form teh Bible sleeked by Brahms himself. It takes a great […]
London already knows the incoming music director of the Royal Opera as an orchestral conductor of distinction in Mahler and the Czech repertoire, but Hrůša’s Shostakovich was new – to me at least – and […]
Martin James Bartlett World Piano Day is celebrated on the 88th day of the year to honour the 88 keys of the piano, so Saffron Hall is planning a celebratory Piano Day on Saturday 29 March […]
Fantasy, Myths and Legends prom – Ellie Slorach, Royal Northern Sinfonia – The Glasshouse (Photo: TyneSight Photographic Services)) Ellie Slorach has been appointed to the new role of Associate Conductor with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, […]
Benda: Medea – Alexandra Lowe, The Mozartists, Ian Page at Cadogan Hall (Photo: Martin Kendrick) 1775 – A Retrospective: Ordonez, Hasse, Mozart, Benda: Medea, Haydn: Symphony No. 67; Alexandra Lowe, Alessandro Fisher, The Mozartists, Ian […]
