Puccini Orchestral Music
Rarities performed at the highest standards, both performative and in terms of recording, are themselves rare, so it is good to have Sinfonia of London under John Wilson in this sequence of early music by […]
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American themes at Aldeburgh: Tony Cooper enjoys a quartet by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson & an absorbing orchestral programme highlighting Elizabeth Ogonek.
Sphinx Piano Quintet: Nathan Amaral, Elena Urioste, Celia Hatton, Sterling Elliott, Amiri Harewood – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: BPA) Perkinson: String Quartet No.1 ‘Calvary’, Vaughan Williams: Rondo for Piano, Still: Suite for Cello and Piano, arr. Randall […]
Launch of UK Choir of the Year with applications open from 25 June
A new national competition is aiming to celebrate choral excellence. UK Choir of the Year is inviting amateur choirs in all genres from across the UK to compete with a final at Milton Court on […]
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Bringers of Dreams: BREMF Emerging Artists announced for the 2026 festival
This year’s Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF), Bringers of Dreams, runs from 2 to 25 October 2026 with events focused on the four weekends. The BREMF Emerging Artist scheme is an important part of the Festival. […]
Truly captivating: bass baritone Nicola Alaimo & pianist Carlo Rizzi celebrate Opera Rara’s Donizetti Song Project with songs by Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini & Mercadante
Carlo Rizzi & Nicola Alaimo recording Donizetti for Opera Rara (Photo: Simon Weir) Donizetti & Friends: Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante; Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi, Hetty Snell; Wigmore HallReviewed 16 June 2026 Superb bel canto technique […]
Glyndebourne’s first staging of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
It is truly astonishing to think that this is Glyndebourne’s first Monteverdi L’Orfeo. It is not the first Monteverdi there, though: both Poppea (first seen1962), and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (1972) have previously featured. […]
So Are We – Lightfoot and Leon – RB
The Royal Ballet’s standing as a serious classical dance company takes another hard knock with its latest programme, a double bill by the resolutely contemporary choreographic duo of Sol León and Paul Lightfoot which contributes […]
Breaking new ground: Ruth Gipps’s Goblin Market, her important setting of Christina Rossetti’s iconic poem to be brought to life by upper-voice ensemble Corra Sound
Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem Goblin Market tells the story of sisters Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. The poem is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, and has been viewed […]
Latvian Music Information Centre launches a new online store with sheet music by Latvian composers
The Latvian Music Information Centre (LMIC) has launched an online sheet music store on its website offering a growing selection of previously unpublished works by Latvian composers. The LMIC sheet music store currently offers nearly one hundred […]
A day at Aldeburgh: Lise Davidsen’s Aldeburgh Festival début in Schubert and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande semi-staged
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande – Myrna Tennant, Camilla Seale, Phoebe Rayner – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Erlkönig; Lise Davidsen soprano, James […]
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