Angel of Peace: The Sixteen
Each year, the vocal group The Sixteen releases a new album on the CORO label to accompany the choir’s nationwide Choral Pilgrimage tour, which sees them visit over 20 locations across the span of 7 […]
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Glyndebourne Festival 2025 – Wagner’s Parsifal – Daniel Johansson, John Relyea, Audun Iversen & Kristina Stanek; directed by Jetske Mijnssen; conducted by Robin Ticciati
As is well known, the founders of the Glyndebourne Festival in the 1930s originally envisaged it to be something of an English Bayreuth. In the event a smaller scale opera festival was established, such that no […]
%20Richard%20Marsham.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A carefully curated programme rather than a disc to dip into: Christopher Gray on his first disc with the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge")
A carefully curated programme rather than a disc to dip into: Christopher Gray on his first disc with the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Christopher Gray (Photo: Richard Marsham) Christopher Gray has been director of music at St John’s College, Cambridge since 2023. He was formerly director of music at Truro Cathedral and took over at St John’s from […]
The RCM Benjamin Britten Felllowship Recital: Thomas Kelly at Wigmore Hall
RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellowship recital: Brahms/Busoni, Schumann, Liszt/Busoni Thomas Kelly (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1pm, 13.05.2025 Brahms/Busoni Chorale Prélude, Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10 Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1in F sharp minor, Op. 11 Liszt/Busoni Fantasy […]
New York Philharmonic with Renée Fleming & Rod Gilfry – Brett Mitchell conducts Puts and Ravel
Stepping in for Juanjo Mena, Brett Mitchell made an impressive Philharmonic debut. Based on the 30-year-long, almost-daily correspondence between American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and the German-born photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Kevin Puts’s Brightness of Light is an expansion […]
Seohyun Go wins the Guildhall Gold Medal
I was lucky enough to attend the Guildhall Godlier Medal last Thursday May 8). The announcement of the winner from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a follows: Guildhall School of Music & […]
Music at St Mary’s, Perivale: Nikita Lukinov
Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Babadjanian Nikita Lukinov (piano) Bach Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Well-Tempered Clavier Book I) Tchaikovsky The Seasons, Op. 37b: May; June Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. piano) […]
Alon Kariv plays Chopin at Cadogan Hall
Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann Alon Kariv (piano); English Chamber Orchestra / Roberto Forés Veses (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 11.05.2025 Mendelssohn Overture, ‘The Hebrides,’ Op. 26 (1829) Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 […]
A Hoffmann to remember: Angela Denoke’s production of Offenbach’s final masterpiece at Oldenburg Staatstheater with Jason Kim
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann – Dorothee Bienert, Jason Kim – Oldenburgisches Staatstheater Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann: Jason Kim, Dorothee Bienert, Penelope Kendros, Adréana Kraschewski, Raffaela Lintl, Eleonora Fabrizi, Seungweon Lee, dir: Angela Denoke; […]
Handel’s Jephtha at the Barbican
Handel’s last oratorio presents, amongst the composer’s catalogue of undeniable masterpieces, a masterwork of stunning stature. Not a note is misplaced in Jephtha: long though it is (more of that later), everything is perfectly […]
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