Julian Azkoul and United Strings of Europe make their Southbank debut on 9 May at the Purcell Room with send back the echo, a concert exploring marginalised voices through the stories and music of deaf […]
Edward Gardner (Photo: Jason Bell) The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has announced its 2026/27 season at the Southbank Centre. Under the title In Search of Purpose, the season explores the human spirit’s resilience and the […]
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) and Georges Bizet (1838–1875) Bizet’s L’Arlésienne suites are well-known with some movements representing some of the composer’s most played music. Yet the original score for Alphonse Daudet’s play, from which the suites are […]
Chandos has done Edward Gregson proud in this release. The Tuba Concerto has a personal connection, in that it was commissioned by Besses o’ th’ Barn band, based between Whitefield and Prestwich; I passed Besses […]
Martha Argerich (Photo: Adriano Heitman) B:Music is the charity responsible for Birmingham Symphony Hall, home of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and Town Hall, the city’s most iconic historic building, each year welcoming […]
NCEM Young Composers Award – Edward Tait, joint winner of the 19 to 25 years category(Photo: Charlie Kirkpatrick) Winners of the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2026, presented partnership with BBC Radio […]
When faced with an established masterpiece that requires performing forces outside their capabilities many ensembles can only look on enviously. Mozart’s Requiem does not make outrageous demands, but its requirements are still a cut above the average […]
The lives of Brummies, the lives of lost venues – the lives we live online, the lives we lived in the past. Birmingham Opera Company’s latest project, RE-WIRE brings together six short contemporary operas in one production […]
Peter Tranchell (Courtesy: Independent Society of Musicians) Peter Tranchell: Tu es Petrus in fuga, Seven Pieces in Alphabetical Order, The Dog That Sat, No more of THEE and ME, Twice a Kiss, Maho Ishizaka: Tickle […]
In Jack Furness’s new production of The Flying Dutchman for Welsh National Opera, Senta becomes the drama’s focus, even before she is born. Her mother’s difficult labour pains are choreographed as the backdrop to the musical drama of the Overture, […]
