Sounds of Blossom returns to Kew Gardens this spring, from Saturday 14 March to Monday 6 April 2026. A collaboration between Kew Gardens and the Royal College of Music will see the colourful flowering trees in Kew’s […]
This year the Roundhouse is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the venue’s resurrection. Used as a performing arts venue from 1964, it was largely unused after 1983 and reopened in 2006 after a multi-million pound […]
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition peasants Manami Suzuki King’s Place, London, 23.01.2026 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (WTC Book II) Szymanowski Metopy, Op. […]
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition peasants Manami Suzuki King’s Place, London, 23.01.2026 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (WTC Book II) Szymanowski Metopy, Op. […]
Mostly with Mahler the old problem is stood on its ahead. Performances, even those of the unfinished Tenth, have become so frequent than it can be difficult to recapture the excitement they once engendered. Tweaked […]
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A River Runs Through It: Michael Kuhn & Schyler Vargas (who play brother Paul & Norman in Zach Redler’s new opera) on the Yellowstone River, August 2025 (Photo: Charlotte Mae Ellison) Norman Maclean’s novel A River […]
This disc traces Gluck’s operatic activity for the years 1743-45, and has a his real musicological purpose. Previously (reviewing for Fanfare), I was less than taken by Elena de Simone’s Tactus disc of arias by […]
Anton Arensky Still probably best known for his chamber music, Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) managed to fit an enormous amount into his relatively short life. He wrote three operas, a ballet (which was reused […]
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Nino Gotoshia, Lisette Oropesa – Salzburg Festival 2025 (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) For the 2026 Salzburg Festival, the Intendant, Markus Hinterhäuser has taken Roland Barthes’ 1977 book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments […]
Schubert Lieder Christian Gerhaher (baritone); Gerold Huber (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.1.2026 Die abgeblühte Linde, D 514 (?1817). Der Jûngling an der Quelle, D 300 (c. 1817). Die blinde Knabe, D 833 (1825). Liane, D 298 (1815). Die Unglûchliche, D 713 (1821). Von Mitleiden […]
