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 […]
It is nice to hear the choir of my old college, King’s College, London, in so vibrant form; the composer here, Edward Nesbit, is currently lecturer in composition there. Christmas music is traditionally reflective: the […]
Over the past two decades a period-instrument aesthetic has dominated the Philharmonic’s annual presentations of Messiah with early-music specialists such as Harry Bicket, Jeanette Sorrell, Masaaki Suzuki and Fabio Biondi recruited to conduct them. This year Ton Koopman, founder […]
Stephen Goss Composer Stephen Goss has a new triple album out, Landscape and Memory on Deux-Elles, which showcases his recent work and celebrates his 60th birthday. The disc includes everything from music for solo guitar […]
Ottorino Respighi’s ‘mystery in three episodes’, Maria Egiziaca (Saint Mary of Egypt) started out as a concert triptych. Some have suggested its dramatic/symphonic slant puts it midway between oratorio and opera, but stagings are fairly […]
British Youth Opera is promising a candlelit blend of music, readings and champagne that really captures the essence of the season at its Christmas on the Strand event in Tuesday 17 December 2024 at St Clement Danes […]
The Norwich Nine – Bootworks Theatre Co. and a local group of nine-year-old children – Norfolk & Norwich Festival By far the largest arts festival in the East of England and the fourth largest in […]
