When I spoke to composer Libby Croad earlier this year [see my interview, ‘Something juicy that you can get your teeth into’] she was just starting work on a new piece for the Dionysius Ensemble. […]
Hans Krasa: Brundibar – Kayla Farrell (Brundibar) – Sarasota Opera (Sarasota Youth Opera) Raise up your voice: Intolerance through the voices of children: Prologue created by Martha Collins and Jesse Martins, Hans Krasa: Brundibar; director: […]
Previously, Classical Explorer has featured the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: we saw them at Wigmore Hall in Mozart and Tchaikovsky, then looked at the first volume of Tchaikovsky Quartets here. This new disc, Terra Memoria, certainly […]
Odaline de la Martinez (Photo: Malcolm Crowther) Born in Cuba, and brought up in the USA, and based in the UK, in this guest posting composer and founder of Lontano Ensemble, Odaline de la Martinez […]
John Blow by Robert White, line engraving, published 1700 NPG D1075 © National Portrait Gallery, London Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures; Raise, raise the voice, Blow: An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry […]
Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s annual Christmas Estates Tour is back for 2025. From 12 to 21 December 2025, the orchestra will be taking seasonal setlist around Lambeth. There will be something for everyone – from classical and […]
A coupling here of Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio with Shai Wosner’s aangement of the Fourth Symphony. We have seen previous volumes in this series here and here, and the combinations have worked well. Here’s the promo video; […]
Marking the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is touring the composer’s piano music. Over the course of three hours with two intermissions this recital was ravishing. Bavouzet has recorded Ravel’s music twice – […]
A Christmas Gaiety 2022: Peaches Christmas and Edwin Outwater The Royal Northern Sinfonia is certainly going all out for Christmas in the season at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music as well as on tour. […]
Arthur Keegan (Photo: Alejandro S Garrido) The Hebrides Ensemble has announced a new tour in February 2026. Music for Time will tour to Dumfries House, Cumnock (1 February) as part of The Cumnock Tryst’s year […]
