MacDowell Orchestral Works Vol. 1 – a mixed bag
Here we have an enticing new recording of the music of Edward MacDowell on Chandos. And who better to bring it to life like no one else can than John Wilson. Well, the first red […]
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Tubin (and friends) at the Royal College of Music
Respighi, Tubin, Falla, Ravel Will Dearden (double-bass); RCM Symphony Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal College of Music, London, 23.01.2025 Respighi Fontane di Roma, P. 106 (1916) Tubin Double-Bass Concerto (1948) Falla El sombrero de […]
Joseph Phibbs’ awesome string quartets
This is a disc I’ve been wanting to review but I’m having a hard time thinking of how to describe it. These 3 String Quartets (#2-4) by English composer Joseph Phibbs, played by the fantastic Piatti Quartet, […]
Anna Dennis’ serious and intent Susanna was rightly the main focus of John Butt & Dunedin Consort’s involving account of Handel’s neglected oratorio
Anna Dennis Handel: Susanna; Anna Dennis, Alexander Chance, Jessica Cale, Joshua Ellicott, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt; Church of St Martin in the FieldsReviewed 24 January 2025 Given complete, this wonderfully involving account of […]
%20Steven%20Daverson%202024.JPG?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background: from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Steven Daverson's new work for orchestra and live electronics")
Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background: from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia to Steven Daverson’s new work for orchestra and live electronics
As part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra‘s Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics day at the Barbican on Sunday 23 February 2025, Ilan Volkov will be conducting the orchestra in the UK premiere of Steven Daverson‘s Figures […]
Filippo Gorini’s Sonata for 7 Cities project
“The idea is simple: instead of constantly travelling from one concert venue to another, I want to focus on each city for a full month and offer as much as I can to the local […]
BBC Symphony Orchestra – An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter
This typically thoughtful programme from Sakari Oramo was marketed as ‘an evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter’. The Lark Ascending is scarcely that – Ursula Vaughan Williams also maintained that her husband, a reluctant countryman, could […]
Celebrating 20 years, the East Neuk Festival welcomes old friends in a programme with Schubert and Beethoven at its core
The audience at Crail Church at the East Neuk Festival, 2024 (Photo: Neil Hanna) The 20th East Neuk Festival will fill some of East Fife’s most stunning seaside locations with line-up of classical, jazz, folk, and […]
Handel Hendrix House celebrates Handel’s Rodelinda with rarely seen portrait of castrato Senesino as Bertarido in the opera
Senesino by John Vandenbank. Private Collection, UK. © The Handel House Trust/Christopher Ison. It is 300 years since Handel first wrote and presented Rodelinda, the second of three masterpieces that he wrote just after moving […]
Marschner: Piano Trios, Volume 1
Best known for his opera Der Vampyr (he was a leading composer in the period between Weber and Wagner), Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861). He was well travelled though Europe before he arrived in Dresden by […]
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