This is a live recording of the 2023 Christmas concert in Leuven (it’s an annual event). These concerts present Austrian music (Leuven lies between Vienna and Salzburg) composed between the 16th and 19th centuries. The […]
Bach’s Weihnachtsoatorium is a cycle of six cantatas performed one six days (or, in one concert as here). This is a two disc plus on Bluray please from DG (the Bluray shows the concert at […]
.png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Letting in the Light: from Rameau's Pygmalion & Wagner's Parsifal to Christian Forshaw, Anna Semple and Schumann's Kerner Lieder at Temple Music")
Temple Music has announced an intriguing range of events for 2025, with everything from Rameau and Wagnerian opera to song recitals from Helen Charlston and Roderick Williams. Things kick of in January 2025 with Handel’s […]
Robert Kahn Robert Kahn, Robert Schumann, Erich Korngold, Paul Hindemith; Florian Störtz, Aleksandra Myslek; City Music Foundation at Tallow Chandlers’ HallReviewed 16 December 2024 Forbidden by the Nazis and forced to feel to England in […]
The French composer Emilie Mayer (1812-83) has already appeared once on Classical Explorer via her Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1843), via a concert from the ever-impressive Insula Orchestra. Now there is a chance […]
Colin Matthews Whilst most people are still frantically planning for Christmas, the good folk at Britten Pears Arts are thinking much further ahead and have announced the highlights of the 2025 Aldeburgh Festival which runs […]
The chapel of the Foundling Hospital where Handel performed Messiah annually Handel: Messiah; Anna Devin, Tim Mead, Nick Pritchard, Cody Quattlebaum, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Barbican HallReviewed 16 December 2024 Sometimes avoiding traditional […]
Back in June 2024 Vache Baroque staged six multi-sensory concert experiences of Handel’s L’Allegro Part I (setting a text based on Milton) in collaboration with BitterSuite (a group that creates music experiences that take inspiration […]
Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square (formed from the merger of Southbank Sinfonia and St John’s Smith Square) has been awarded £452,035 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund for upgrades to Smith Square Hall. The […]
NB: I’m reposting this, as one of next week’s posts will be a full Trittico from Vienna …. Puccini Suor Angelica (sung in English, traans. Amanda Holden). Cast; Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "The Trial of Dhegdheer: a Somali folktale is the inspiration for a new community opera bringing together communities of Butetown & Grangetown in Cardiff")
