Regent Opera’s Siegfried
Part 3! Siegfried can be a tricky opera for any company to pull off for there are many issues and pre-conceptions to surmount: huge demands on the singer of the title role, the male-voice dominance […]
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A tremendous Shostakovich 15 from Dresden
Miachael Sanderling (son of the great Kurt Sanderling) is a conductor I am aching to hear live. His contribution to this remarkable disc of Grieg and Schumann piano concertos with Elisabeth Leonskaja was notable indeed; […]
Notes of Old: Helen Charlston & Sholto Kynoch draw together a variety of composers, echoing common themes & preoccupation in music that they love
Sholto Kynoch & Helen Charlston in rehearsal (Image from YouTube video) Notes of Old: Mompou, Hahn, Monteverdi, Bach, Schubert, Bach arranged by György Kurtág, Anna Semple Pauline Viardot, Ravel, Marc Antoine Charpentier, Schumann; Helen Charlston, Sholto […]
Mozart Horn Concertos: Double Bubble
Two discs of Mozart Horn Concertos day: Pip Eastop, who we met most recently here, with the Hanover Band and fellow horn player Anthony Halstead, on Hyperion, and Alec Frank-Gemmill with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra […]
Regent Opera’s Die Walküre
In the second instalment of The Ring, we move to the world of mortals, and to probably the most popular and familiar of the four works that comprise this masterpiece. It starts with the act […]
Vivid detail & white-hot performances: Gavin Higgins’ Horn Concerto & The Faerie Bride now on disc
Gavin Higgins: Horn Concerto, Fanfare, Air and Flourishes, The Faerie Bride; Ben Goldscheider, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Roderick Williams, Three Choirs Festival Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jaime Martin, Martyn Brabbins; LyritaReviewed 25 February 2025 Two […]
Back for the 18th edition, the Winchester Chamber Music Festival has everything from Bach & Beethoven to George Crumb & Caroline Shaw
The Winchester Chamber Music Festival, artistic director Kate Gould, returns from 2 to 5 May 2025 for the 18th festival, with a wide range of performances, schools performances, family concerts, talks and masterclasses at venues […]
Planet Hugill featured in FeedSpot Top 60 Opera Blogs
I am never really sure about lists of things, the Top 50 Best whatevers. However, finding out that you are in such a list is terribly seductive, even if you wonder how the list has […]
New Music Biennial: 20 new works as part of the festival celebrating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
For the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the PRS Foundation’s New Music 20×12 showcased a range of short (no longer than 15 minutes) pieces by contemporary music creators. Renamed New Music Biennial, the festival has become a showcase […]
Beset by criticisms of Wagnerisme, Édouard Lalo cried off opera after Le Roi d’Ys but the work itself held the stage and is finally returning to London
Poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys. During the 19th century, many French composers became fascinated by Wagner and his operas. Not every composer managed as balanced an attitude as Gabriel Fauré […]
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