Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes; Sara Cortolezzis, Valentyn Dytiuk, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Quinn Kelsey, director: Stefan Herheim/Dan Dooner, conductor: Speranza Scappucci; Royal Opera House Reviewed 3 October 2025 Verdi’s problem French grand opera returns with Herheim’s grand […]
%20Benjamin%20Ealovega.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Reformation: Mishka Rushdie Momen on mixing Renaissance piano music with later periods at the London Piano Festival")
Mishka Rushdie Momen (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen will be making her debut at the 10th anniversary edition of the London Piano Festival, which runs at Kings Place from 9 to 14 October […]
This is a timely release on the La Scala label, given the release of Michel Béroff‘s compete Erato recordings over 41 discs on Warner; his Visions de l’Amen La Scala disc was made available on […]
Rossini: Ermione – Beth Taylor (Ermione) – Jakob Lehmann, Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique at Cadogan Hall (Photo: Paul Marc Mitchell) Rossini: Ermione (excerpts), Stabat Mater; Ana Maria Labin, Beth Taylor, Hannah Ludwig. Alasdair Kent, Anthony […]
This is an excellent disc, but it is somewhat scuppered by lack of texts. That said, these are delightful works. They ae all love cantatas, and the narrating voice can morph between male and female […]
This is interesting, as it fills in an ‘interim” Elgar Violin Concerto, and a fine if technically flawed Cockaigne. In between is Toscanini’s take on some Elgar. So first, the Overure Cockaigne (In London Town). […]
everything you’ve ever lived: Baden Powell, Ravel, Seiber, de Falla, Richard Rodgers, Burt Bacharach, My Brightest Diamond, Vincente Asencio, Debussy, Sinead O’Connor, Caroline Polachek, Britten, Asik Veysel, Jorge Cardoso, Paurillo Barroso, Armando Soares; Lotte Betts-Dean, […]
Following sold out and critically acclaimed performances of Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre [see my review] and Siegfried [see Tony’s review], the London Opera Company (LOC) returns to Sinfonia Smith Square (formerly St John’s Smith […]
Jago Thornton Jago Thornton, Shostakovich, Coleridge-Taylor; Sacconi Quartet, David Campbell; Conway Hall Sunday ConcertsReviewed 28 September 2025 Coleridge-Taylor’s early masterwork paired with a new piece for clarinet and strings by Jago Thornton, commissioned as a […]
Part of Stravnisky’s Neo-Classicism was his work with the music of older composers, and we see two instances of that thee: chikovsky for L raise de la fée and 18th-Centuy Naples for Pulcinella. It is […]
