The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum has a collection of music manuscripts written, arranged and performed by the prisoners themselves. Damaged, complete and often overlooked, composer and conductor Leo Geyer has been working with the museum, survivors and […]
Yesterday (20 May 2025), Argentinian bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi celebrated his 90th birthday. A long time collaborator with ECM records [his discography is here], the label has released the first track from his upcoming album El Viejo […]
Rameau: Suite from Les Boréades, Pigmalion; Samuel Boden, Rachel Redmond, Jessica Cale, Lauren Lodge Campbell, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn; Temple Music at Middle Temple HallReviewed 20 May 2025 An evening of Rameau in miniature; dances […]
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This year is the 80th anniversary of the ending of World War Two, and organisations are finding a wide variety of ways to create events that reflect this. For their concert at Smith Square Hall […]
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – Opéra Bastille (Photo: Guergana Damianova/OnP) Puccini: Il Trittico; Asmik Grigorian, Alexey Neklyudov, Misha Kiria, Enkelejda Shkoza, Joshua Guerrero, Roman Burdenko, Karita Mattila, director Christof Loy, conductor Carlo Rizzi; Opéra Bastille, ParisReviewed […]
André de RidderCourtesy of English National Opera © Hugo Glendinning English National Opera’s announcement of its 2025/26 season (good news in itself, there is a season and it is far stronger than might have been […]
Bizet: Carmen – Norfolk Into Opera Festival 2023 (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) As Norfolk’s primary schools grapple with an escalating crisis in arts education funding, Anguish’s Educational Foundation and Into Opera are inviting local stakeholders, educators, […]
Bliss’ The Beatitudes performed in Coventry Cathedral for the first time, the building for which it was commissioned and written; Orla Boylan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Paul Daniel (conductor) in […]
This release, aptly titled “A Duke Moment”, spotlights music originating from Duke University. The Ciompi Quartet, comprised of professors at Duke, play an interesting program of new and recent works for string quartet by composers […]
The Silver Bell was Saint-Saëns’s first opera, composed in 1864, but it turned out to have a protracted gestation to its first performance in 1877 (the theatre originally expected to host the premiere went bankrupt, and […]
