So what’s the big deal hee? Two violinists on one disc, one of them – Adila Fachirri – performing with Donald Francis Tovey, he of the Essays in Musical Analysis. Toccata Classics has released recordings […]
City Music Foundation Artists 2025 (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation has announced the new cohort of artists joining the CMF Artist Programme as ‘2025 CMF Artists. Becoming a 2025 CMF Artist will mean […]
Asadbek Turgunov Last year composer and teacher Elisabetta Brusa introduced her Brusa Foundation Award in an article for us [see Elisabetta’s article]. The award is to give opportunities to composers who recreate new, free and […]
The choral tradition of excellence at St John’s College, Cambridge carries on under Christopher Gray, continuing the work of Andrew Nethsingha. Adophe Adam’s O holy night will need little introduction, but what a lovey arrangement […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
The Magdalene Songs – Deirdre Brenner, Lotte Betts-Dean – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) The Magdalene Songs: Elaine Agnew, Elaine Brennan, Rhona Clarke, Deirdre McKay; Lotte Betts-Dean, Deirdre Brenner; Oxford International Song Festival […]
Mark Rogers, Hugo Brady – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) Moore’s Melodies: traditional, Stanford, Ina Boyle, Schumann, Duparc, Barber, Britten, Johnny Patterson; Hugo Brady, Mark Rogers; Oxford International Song Festival at the Holywell […]
We met Elisabeth Leonskaja in Grieg and Schumann with another Michael, Michael Sanderling, previously in the time-honoured coupling of Grieg and Schumann Concertos here. On the new disc, it is Michael Schønwandt who conducts the […]
Baba Yaga: Songs & Dances of Death – Sholto Kynoch, Ana Dordevic, Carola Schwab, Rowan Hellier – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) Baba Yaga: Songs and Dances of Death – Elena Langer, Mussorgsky, […]
Oliver Johnston Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Shostakovich: Six romances on texts by Japanese poets, Elena Langer: Two Mandelstam Songs, Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Oliver Johnston, Natalie BurchShostakovich: A life in Song: Philip Ross Bullock, […]
So the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival 2026! The official release is below, to which I would add a few highlights: It is good to see Yuliana Adveeva on the books, a pianist who hs impressed in […]
