Schubert with friends Johann Baptist Jenger & Anselm Huttenbrenner – Chalk drawing, 1827, by Josef Eduard Teltscher Schubert Weekend: Nikola Hillebrand, Julius Drake, Thomas Oliemans, Paolo Giacometti; Oxford International Song Festival at Holywell Music RoomReviewed […]
This is an enticing release – new orchestral works from American composer Kevin Puts played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and their fabulous conductor, Stephane Deneve. It’s also interesting that it appears on the […]
This is the first of two volumes of George Walker’s complete piano works; Alexandre Dossin is the beautifully sensitive pianist. Dossin has previously appeared on ax’s as par of their complete Liszt piano music, in […]
Ann Hallenberg, The Mozartists, Ian Page recording Gluck Arias (Photo: Ben Ealovega) Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg has a new album out. For Gluck Arias on Signum Classics, she joined forces with conductor Ian Page, with […]
At his finest, Jonathan Biss is up there in the very top echelon of pianists. His speciality is Beethoven, a composer on whom he speaks and lectures as well as plays. We met his Orchid […]
Handel’s restored house in Brook Street Handel’s collection of art is known to have included works by Canaletto, Watteau and Poussin which he owned in his home at Brook Street. In a forthcoming concert at […]
Handel: Giustino – Esme Bronwen-Smith, Polly Leech, Kelly Fuge, Mireille Asselin, Benjamin Hulett (with bag over his head) – La Nuova Musica at Royal Opera House (Photo: Marc Brenner) Handel: Giustino; Polly Leech, Mireille Asselin, […]
Brriten Albert Herring Cast; Orchestra of English National Opera / Daniel Cohen (conductor). Coliseum, London, 13.10.2025 Production: Director/Designer: Antony McDonald Lighting: Matthew Richardson Costume Associate: Iloa Karas Cast: Albert Herring Caspar Singh Sid Dan D’Souza […]
From Premier Classical: The winners of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2025 were revealed tonight [15 October 2025] at a glittering ceremony at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.Long regarded as the classical recording […]
Johannes Worms in the Gemäldegalerie – State Museums of Berlin (Photo: Jana Kiesser) The young German baritone Johannes Worms has been exploring the wider shores of song, presenting programmes that focus on playful explorations of queerness and […]
