It’s amazing what can change in three quarters of an a hour. This short lunchtime concert at Wigmore Hall preesnted some remarkable music in superb performances: the known, the lesser-known and the (probably) unknown. But […]
Schubert: Trout Quintet – Mikhail Kopelman, Loïc Rio, Laurent Marfaing, François Kieffer, Grigory Kovalevsky, Elisabeth Leonskaja (Photo © Nathanael Charpentier / © Association La Clé des Portes) First concert (presented by Clément Rochefort)JS Bach: Cello […]
Jess Gillam, Tom Fetherstonhaugh & Fantasia Orchestra in rehearsal (Photo: Fantasia Orchestra) In May last year I chatted conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh [see my interview] about Fantasia Orchestra which he founded way back in 2016 (when he […]
Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 71, Moods, Op. 73, Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46, transcriptions of Songs, Op. 41 – Alexander Ullmann – Rubicon Classics RCD 1129 Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 65, Op. 68, Op. 73 – Ziad Kreidy (historic piano) – Bandcamp Two […]
The Foundling Hospital chapel where Handel presented Messiah annually Cities change and cities develop. Which means that a festival that seeks to celebrate Handel in the city of his adoption constantly needs to reinvent itself. There are […]
Schubert with friends Johann Baptist Jenger & Anselm Huttenbrenner – Chalk drawing, 1827, by Josef Eduard Teltscher Schubert Weekend: Nikola Hillebrand, Julius Drake, Thomas Oliemans, Paolo Giacometti; Oxford International Song Festival at Holywell Music RoomReviewed […]
This is an enticing release – new orchestral works from American composer Kevin Puts played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and their fabulous conductor, Stephane Deneve. It’s also interesting that it appears on the […]
This is the first of two volumes of George Walker’s complete piano works; Alexandre Dossin is the beautifully sensitive pianist. Dossin has previously appeared on ax’s as par of their complete Liszt piano music, in […]
Ann Hallenberg, The Mozartists, Ian Page recording Gluck Arias (Photo: Ben Ealovega) Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg has a new album out. For Gluck Arias on Signum Classics, she joined forces with conductor Ian Page, with […]
At his finest, Jonathan Biss is up there in the very top echelon of pianists. His speciality is Beethoven, a composer on whom he speaks and lectures as well as plays. We met his Orchid […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
