Founded in 1995 by Rainer Kussmaul, Raimar Orlovsky and other members of the Berlin Philharmonic as an ensemble specialised in music of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Berliner Barock Solisten is a crack ensemble […]
This is properly musicians in sevice of music. The pieces here ae rarely heard, and of the three composers only one has anything like the recognition he deserves, and even then it’s somewhat lacking (Bliss). […]
Christopher Nolan’s enormously successful 2023 film, Oppenheimer (seven Oscars, seven Golden Globes, five BAFTAs) about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War […]
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Music from Pole to Pole – City of London Sinfonia and Dr Simon Clark at Smith Square Hall – (Photo: Suzi Corker) Music from Pole to Pole: Caroline Shaw, Webern, Dvorak, Lutosławski, Osvaldo Golijov, Marais, […]
For their latest show, playwright/singer Clare Norburn and her company The Telling have turned to the private life of Charles Dickens. With an estranged wife and teenage mistress, he doesn’t quite live up to the […]
Unsuk Chin, Bartók, Debussy, Ravel Bertrand Chamayou (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dinis Souza (conductor) Unsuk Chin Alaraph, ‘Ritual of the heartbeat’ (2022, London premiere) Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz 119 / BB 127 (1945) Debussy La […]
Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in this exciting performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony, the work that epitomizes the composer’s music perhaps more than any other. He brought out in distinctive […]
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Jonathan Dove: Itch – Adam Temple Smith as Itch and Victoria Simmonds as Watkins – Opera Holland Park 2023 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Celebrating the best new classical music and sound art, this year’s Ivors Classical […]
En Couleur: Saint-Saens, Ravel, Tailleferre, Debussy, Milhaud; Trio Colores (Fabian Ziegler, Luca Staffelbach and Matthias Kessper); Solo MusicaReviewed 7 October 2024 Sensitivity of touch and an ear for timbre and colour bring a sense of […]
Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Photo: Felix Grünschloß) Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers has a fascinatingly international history, the work was written to a French libretto by a France-based American, premiered in German […]
