Recorded at the University of Surrey, this is a rather nice introduction to the music of Charles Shadle, who currently teaches at MIT; his own teachers include Harold Shapio. The first three pieces on this […]
Mozart: Don Giovanni – Ensemble OrQuesta at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre (Photo: Julian Guidera) Mozart: Don Giovanni; Marcio da Silva, Flavio Lauria, Helen May, Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Anna-Luise Wagner, John Twitchen, director: Marcio da Silva, Hastings […]
Editorial Tolerance is possibly our Salvation “ “Marks & Spencer’s has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its […]
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Huw Montague Rendall, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Glyndebourne at the BBC Proms (Photo: Chris Christodoulou/ BBC) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro: Tommaso Barea, Johann Wallroth, Huw […]
Bellini Norma (librettist: Felice Romani after Alexandre Soumet’s play, Norma, ou l’infanicide) Bellini’s Norma is one of the great operas; it is far more than just ‘Casta Diva’. And those UK readers who attended Chelsea […]
Gstaad Menuhin Festival (2): Matinée des Jeunes Étoiles VI Georgii Moroz (violin); Marco Scilironi (piano). Gstaad Chapel, Gstaad, 1030am, 23.08.2025 Bartók Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, Sz 86 Moroz The Poet Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in […]
Sing for Pleasure training in action (Photo: Simon King) This month, Sing for Pleasure, the UK’s leading provider of choral conductor training, launched its newly updated Choral Conductor Training Programme. The Programme, is an expansion and […]
Slough Cultural Revival is a project led by Slough Arts Forum, a collective of over 50 arts organisations, and supported by Arts Council England, intended to ‘revive’ the town as a centre for creativity and innovation, and act […]
Brassworks at Woolwich Works Brassworks, Woolwich Works’ celebrations of all things brass returns to the multi-disciplinary cultural hub on the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich on Saturday 6 September 2025 with a parade through Woolwich, and a full […]
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in A-Major, Op. 72 (1946) Brahms Piano Quintet in F-Minor, Op. 34 (1865) Saanen Church, Switzerland, 21.08.2025 Saanen Church, Switzerland Dedicated to the great Beethoven Quartet, and premiered in Moscow […]
