Eight months after her dazzling performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony and Jakub Hrůša, Hélène Grimaud returned for a recital combining ‘The Three Bs’. She began with an uncommonly resonant reading […]
For their series Lights in the Dark at the Royal Festival Hall (with two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and music director Vasily Petrenko explore the many ways in which […]
Looking towards the sixtieth anniversary (2025) of Elizabeth Poston’s Penguin Book of Carols (1965), initially undertaken with Ralph Vaughan Williams, this new recording presents music associated with these two composers (including Poston’s arrangement of Peter […]
London Youth Opera’s latest production is a new opera, The Quest inspired by the Auden and Isherwood play, The Ascent of F6. The opera has a clear, contemporary message both for the young performers and for […]
As many of you are probably aware, the soprano Nadine Benjamin is suffering from severe and debilitating complications from Long Covid and she currently needs 24 hour care to keep her safe and help her get […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Fine-grained tone & classical style: Kyan Quartet in Beethoven, Schumann & Caroline Shaw at Conway Hall's Sunday Concert Series")
Andrey Razumovsky from 1810 by Austrian artist Lampi the Younger Caroline Shaw: Valencia, Schumann: Quartet in A, Op.41 No.3, Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte, Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2 ‘Razumovsky’; Kyan Quartet; Conway Hall Sunday ConcertsReviewed 8 […]
_Rémy%20Brès-Feuillet_Yuriy%20Mynenko_©_Clemens%20Manser_G.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Bayreuth goes to Venice: Cavalli's Pompeo Magno the centrepiece of the 2025 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival")
Handel’s Flavio at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in 2023Rémy Brès-Feuillet (in bath), Yuriy Mynenko – (Photo: Clemens Manser) The Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, based at the 18th century Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, will be […]
London Sinfonietta – Love Lines – Electra Perivolaris Love Lines: Judith Weir, James MacMillan, Peter Maxwell Davies, Electra Perivolaris; London Sinfonietta; Kings PlaceReviewed 6 December 2024 Contemporary Scottish music in a programme centred on Peter […]
Nice to see a disc celebrating Eudice Shapiro. A pupil of the great Efrem Zimbalist, long-lived Shapiro (1914-2007) shines on this release. She was known as an orchestral and quartet leader, and here we hear […]
For her New York Philharmonic debut, Keri-Lynn Wilson, founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, led an all-Russian program, Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 in conjunction with William Kentridge’s Oh to Believe in Another World,surveying the composer’s rocky relationship […]
.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")
