BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at Aviva Studios in 2025 (Photo: Gaelle Beri) Factory International, the organisation behind Manchester International Festival, presents a year-round cultural programme at Manchester’s Aviva Studios including a classical season. Last weekend (2 May) the […]
I remember seeing an LP set for Haydn’s “Baryton Trios” in the 1980s and wondering what on earth that was all about. It’s all down to employment: Haydn’s employer, Prince Nikolaus of Esterházy’s and his […]
Adrian Partington conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the 2022 Cheltenham Music Festivalwith South Cotswold Big Sing Group, British Sinfonietta As part of this year’s Cheltenham Music Festival, Adrian Partington […]
This is Volume Six of Somm’s Bruckner series; we looked at Volume One here. This contains the monumental Eighth Symphony. If there is one orchestra the seems perfect for Bruckner, with its rich tradition, its […]
Composer Gabriel Prokofiev is opening a space dedicated to the art of his father Oleg Prokofiev (1928-1998), son of composer Sergei Prokofiev. Oleg wrote that his father’s music inspired in him ‘a wave of some […]
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Jasdeep Singh Degun, Gurdain Rayatt, Fantasia Orchestra, Tom Fetherstonhaugh – Smith Square Hall (Photo: Pablo Strong) Fantasia Orchestra, conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh, celebrates its 10th anniversary this summer with a very busy programme of concerts including […]
Pegasus Opera Company is joining forces with another dynamic Brixton musical institution, Brixton Chamber Orchestra for a pair of events marking Windrush Day 2026. They are presenting Windrush & Migrations: an Evening of Opera in […]
Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has announced its 2026–27 season, titled Promethean: a 12-concert series shaped by daring ideas and artists who pushed beyond the limits of their time. The season features major vocal works including […]
Broadway Rhapsody: Anush Hovhannisyan & Sam Jewison Soprano Anush Hovhannisyan is familiar from her performances as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Space at the Grange Festival [see my review], Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin […]
A timely post, after the weekend’s Southbank performance of Wozzeck. Sir Adrian Boult conducing Wozzeck might certainly cause a double-take. What we have here is the second ever performance of Berg’s Wozzeck in the UK […]
