Redefining “Success” as a Classical Musician
Stevens & Pound – Delia Stevens and Will Pound On 21 June 2025 at Stromness Town Hall as part of the St Magnus Festival, the duo Stevens & Pound present Ascending – a cross-genre concert full […]
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From kazoo & harpsichord to large electronically-augmented ensemble: Alex Paxton’s Delicious on New Amsterdam Records is a multi-layered maximalist delight:
Alex Paxton: Delicious – Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run), Shrimp BIT Baby Face, Dadd’s Fairies, Justgum Friends, Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange), Levels of Affection; Dreammusics Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain […]
New York Philharmonic – Sarah Hicks conducts John Williams’s score for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Philharmonic wound up this season’s ‘The Art of the Score’ series performing alongside an HD presentation of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the second installment in the original Star Wars trilogy. Set three […]
Window of opportunity: City Music Foundation opens applications for its 2025 programme
CMF Artists Connaught Brass City Music Foundation (CMF) is opening its 2025 programme to applications from Friday 13 June 2025, giving emerging professional performers across classical, jazz, folk and world music genres – both soloists […]
Esprit Submergé: French string quartet Page Blanche give the first UK performances of Luke Styles’ new string quartet
Page Blanche is a string quartet made up of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, but with a twist they are violin, viola, cello and double bass (Joseph André, Flore-Anne Brosseau, Paul-Marie Kuzma, Ulysse Vigreux). […]
Schubert and Byrd at Wigmore Hall: Mishka Rushdie Momen impresses, again
Schubert, Byrd Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1130 am, 8.6.2025 Schubert Piano Sonatas: A minor, D 784 (1823); C minor, D 958 (1828) Byrd Prelude in A minor. Fantasia in A minor. I was […]
Wilson’s final Rachmaninoff installment. I’m glad it’s done.
I really enjoyed John Wilson’s 2022 Rach 3 (much more than his Rach 2), finding his straightforward, no-nonsense approach worked quite well in that piece. So I was really looking forward to hearing what he […]
J. S. Bach and the French Baroque – Orchestra of St. Luke’s
The evening got underway with some bright, consummately French dances by Lully. All were presented with perfection, with some wonderfully delicate sounds from the 20-piece OSL, a modern instrument group playing with an elegance and […]
A valuable window onto the sound world of the Tudor Court on progress: Henry VIII on Tour from Ensemble Pro Victoria & Toby Ward
Henry VIII on Tour: music from Tudor Royal Progresses – William Cornysh, William Rasar, John Redford, Dionisius Prioris, Philippe Verdelot, Philip van Wilder, John White, William More, Robert Cowper, John Tavener, Henry VIII; Ensemble Pro Victoria, […]
Eternal Light: the seventh Summer Music in City Churches returns to the City of London
The seventh Summer Music in City Churches returns to the City of London from 18 to 27 June, celebrating choral music in the City’s churches, with music in St Giles Cripplegate, St Mary Abchurch, St James […]
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