%20(1).png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Mad, magical and mesmerising: Tom Coult's Pieces that Disappear, his debut disc from NMC Records")
Tom Coult: Three Pieces that Disappear, Beautiful Caged Thing, Pleasure Garden, After Lassus; Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Gourlay and Elena Schwarz; NMC Records Music that is misremembered or did not […]
This is truly special. Rogier Michael, born in Mons, Belgium in around 1553 and died 1623, was a late example of the polyphonic Franco-Flemish school. His setting of the Weihnachtshisorie (Christmas story) dates from 1602 […]
With the proliferation of new Classical releases this year, I’ve found myself spending much more time listening than reviewing, eager to move on to the next batch of CDs that arrives in the mail. So […]
For many, Arnold Schönberg is, pardon the niche family-basd pun, a no-no. His rigour, his new system of dodecaphonic (twelve-tone rows) offers challenges for sure; but before that, his late-Romantic lushness is captivating. This release […]
Eight months after her dazzling performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony and Jakub Hrůša, Hélène Grimaud returned for a recital combining ‘The Three Bs’. She began with an uncommonly resonant reading […]
For their series Lights in the Dark at the Royal Festival Hall (with two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and music director Vasily Petrenko explore the many ways in which […]
Looking towards the sixtieth anniversary (2025) of Elizabeth Poston’s Penguin Book of Carols (1965), initially undertaken with Ralph Vaughan Williams, this new recording presents music associated with these two composers (including Poston’s arrangement of Peter […]
London Youth Opera’s latest production is a new opera, The Quest inspired by the Auden and Isherwood play, The Ascent of F6. The opera has a clear, contemporary message both for the young performers and for […]
As many of you are probably aware, the soprano Nadine Benjamin is suffering from severe and debilitating complications from Long Covid and she currently needs 24 hour care to keep her safe and help her get […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Fine-grained tone & classical style: Kyan Quartet in Beethoven, Schumann & Caroline Shaw at Conway Hall's Sunday Concert Series")
Andrey Razumovsky from 1810 by Austrian artist Lampi the Younger Caroline Shaw: Valencia, Schumann: Quartet in A, Op.41 No.3, Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte, Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2 ‘Razumovsky’; Kyan Quartet; Conway Hall Sunday ConcertsReviewed 8 […]
