Sonate a quattro: Ensemble Diderot
When is a sonata for four not a sonata for four? in the Baroque, of course, where Trio Sonatas are similarly à 4 (cos continuo). Here is a sequence of Sonate a quattro, brilliantly performed […]
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Thomas Adès as Principal Guest Conductor, Sir James MacMillan as Featured Composer: The Hallé Orchestra & Kahchun Wong’s 2026/27 season
The Hallé Orchestra’s 2026/27 season has a striking focus on contemporary music as well as celebrating both Kahchun Wong’s third season as Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor and Conductor Emeritus Sir Mark Elder’s 80th birthday. […]
A shared encounter between contemporary music & art: Alex Mills’s debut album Look How Brightly has a physical manifestation as an exhibition
Susan Rocklin: Realm – featured in Look How Brightly at Apsara Studio Composer Alex Mills‘s Look How Brightly is his debut album on Delphian, presenting a body of work shaped over a decade, bringing together ten of his […]
A couple of memorable concerts in this year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival were delivered by the Britten Sinfonia and Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus.
Britten: Les Illuminations – Elizabeth Watts & Britten Sinfonia at Kings Place, London (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten: Young Apollo, Bowles: Six Piano Preludes, Copland: Clarinet Concerto, Britten: Les Illuminations, Copland: Appalachian Spring; Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet), […]
From the Caribbean to Brazil with a bit of New Orleans on the way… Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Streetband Parade 2026
Brixton Chamber Orchestra took to the streets yesterday (Sunday 24 May 2026) for their Streetband Parade. The band consisted of brass (including, of course, a Sousaphone) and woodwind, along with electric guitar and drums. We […]
Leonkoro Quartet “Out of Vienna” – Outstanding Berg and Webern.
Berg and Webern probably wouldn’t have enticed me to buy this CD, but the inclusion of Schulhoff’s Five Pieces did. So reading my headline there, you might be wondering why I left Schulhoff out. Well, […]
Glyndebourne Festival 2026 – Puccini’s Tosca – Caitlin Gotimer, Matteo Lippi & Vladislav Sulimsky; directed by Ted Huffman; conducted by Robin Ticciati
It’s been a year of firsts as far as Tosca is concerned: the Royal Opera House having begun the present season back in September with its first new production of the work in almost twenty […]
Leeds is alive with the Sound of Music
Opera North is at it again, serenading unsuspecting Leeds shoppers with music from their shows. Last year it was Anna Dennis singing the Queen of the Night in Trinity Leeds shopping centre, and this year […]
Capella Edina: how Luis Schmidt, a young conductor from Munich, came to found Edinburgh’s first professional philharmonic orchestra in almost ninety years
Luis Schmidt & Capella Edina (Photo: Euan Robertson) Luis Schmidt, a conductor from Munich who has just turned 22, founded Capella Edina in Edinburgh in 2024, the city’s first professional philharmonic orchestra in almost ninety […]
Each song a story to be told: James Newby & Malcolm Martineau’s Shipping Forecast at SongEasel in Elephant & Castle
SongEasel at St Matthew’s Church, Elephant & CastleJocelyn Freeman The Shipping Forecast – Elgar: Sea Pictures, Chabrier, Duparc, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Bantock, Ireland, Tippett, Eric Coates, Ives, Kurt Weill, Charles Trenet; James Newby, Malcolm Martineau; SongEasel […]
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