This second evening in a three-day Carnegie Hall residency as part of the Czech Philharmonic’s North American tour and New York City’s contribution to the 2024 Year of Czech Music, especially noteworthy as it marks […]
Stephen Hough has been a fixture on Planet Piano for years, but there is nothing to take for granted in the completeness and freshness of his musicianship. Like an alchemist, he both challenges and deepens […]
The Songs of Thomas Pitfield: James Gilchrist, Nathan Williamson; Divine ArtReviewed 3 December 2024 Nearly 30 songs by a composer whose life almost spanned the 20th century. Full of lyrical impulse and often setting his […]
Described, accurately, by the notes as a “Parisian noir,” Il tabarro,” intended as the first of Puccini’s Trittico (a cycle of three opera designed to be performed in on evening).We reviewed the ENO incarnation of […]
Described as “a journey through layers and roots in the pursuit of a revelatory vision“, classical guitarist Simon Thacker’s new disc, Songs of the Roma, (released this week on Slap the Moon Records) draws on […]
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Guildhall School of Music & DramaIntroduction to Arts Evaluation (Photo: Dave Buttle) The Guildhall School of Music and Drama has announced its Spring 2025 programme of evening courses in drama, writing, music, creative industry, and […]
The 17th century stables at Nevill Holt which now house the theatre Following a sharp pivot after the abbreviated 2023 opera season, the Nevill Holt Festival was inaugurated this year under the direction of James […]
In Copisteria del Conte: Michele Gallucci, Gasparo Arnaldi, Emanuele Barbella, Carlo Ferrari, Pietro Nardini, Luigi Boccherini; Jacopo Ristori, Sara de Vries, Antoinette Lohmann, Giorgos Samoilis, Viola de Hoog, Gied van Oorschot, Jesse Solway, Anna Pontz, […]
Every horn player knows Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. One of that composer’s most beautiful, and cogent, pieces, it often sends tingles of dread in the bravest of hornists; it was, after […]
Gustav Holst by Herbert Lambert, bromide print, 1921NPG P109 © National Portrait Gallery, London The songs of Gustav Holst: Katie Bray, Ruairi Bowen, Nigel Foster; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist ChurchReviewed 29 November […]
