Konstantin Krimmel (Photo: Guido Werner) This year’s Oxford International Song Festival takes as its theme Stories in Song and from 10 to 25 October 2025, artistic director Sholto Kynoch and his team are presenting 67 […]
Maurice Greene: Jephtha; Andrew Staples, Mary Bevan, Michael Mofidian, Jeremy Budd, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn; CHANDOSReviewed 28 April 2025 Written well before Handel really welded oratorio in his own form of music drama, Maurice […]
Stationers Hall In 1683, a group of musicians and music lovers got together as the Musical Society of London and organised a St Cecilia’s Day concert (22 November) for which Henry Purcell wrote Welcome to all the […]
1803 portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman This weekend, 3 and 4 May 2025, Conway hall is having an immersive event giving us the opportunity to hear hear all of Beethoven’s major chamber works with […]
Louise Farrenc in 1835 Michael Haydn: Divertimento in G, Louise Farrenc: Nonet in E flat, George Onslow: Nonet in A minor; Zoffany Ensemble – Manon Derome, violin, Rachel Roberts, viola, Anthony Pleeth, cello, Lynda Houghton, […]
On one level an old-fashioned Sunday afternoon matinee, this impressive concert was also a more than usually comfortable fit for two ongoing series: the RPO’s own ‘Lights in the Dark’ strand and the Southbank Centre’s […]
Grand Concert pour les Aixois: Haydn, Tchaikovsky , Mozart The Strings of Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Gábor Takács-Nagy. Cathédale Saint-Saveur, Aix en Provence, France, 20.04.2025 Haydn Die sieben letzten Worte underes Erlöser am Kreutz, […]
Now that only the over-seventies can recall the half-century of semi-neglect which followed the world premiere of the Eighth, paradoxically Mahler’s biggest success in his lifetime, the old problem is stood on its ahead. Performances […]
Jack Bazalgette (Photo: Ehimetalor Unuabona) Jack Bazalgette is perhaps best known as the co-founder and director of through the noise, which since 2020 has programmed more than 130 classical music concerts in non-traditional venues using […]
Aix en Provence Easter Festival: Bach Anna El-Khashem (soprano); Mari Askvik (alto)l Nick Pritchard (tenor); Adrien Fournaison (bass); Namur Chamber Choir; Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix en Provence, […]
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