And it just keeps getting worse.
Several months ago, I wrote a piece on this blog complaining about the price of CDs these days. So how are things going these days? Well, things just seem to keep getting worse. In fact, […]
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The first Thai composer to be commissioned to write for a major European opera house: Prach Boondiskulchok’s new operas in Amsterdam and Brussels
Prach Boondiskulchok Composer Prach Boondiskulchok is perhaps as well known as a pianist, as part of the Linos Piano Trio [see my review of their 2023 disc, Maurice Ravel: In search of lost dance] but that […]
Storytelling, musicality & musicology: Hugh Cutting, Peter Whelan & Irish Baroque Orchestra in The Trials of Tenducci at Wigmore Hall
Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci (c. 1773) (Photo: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts) The Trials of Tenducci: Mozart, Johann Christian Bach, Gluck, Thomas Arne, Johann Christian Fischer, Tommaso Giordani; Hugh Cutting, Peter […]
New music, rare Mahler, the Big Sing, Eric Coates & young musicians: Cheltenham Music Festival 2026
South Cotswold Big Sing Group Artistic director Jack Bazalgette has announced the full programme for the 81st Cheltenham Music Festival which runs from 3 to 11 July 2026. Bazalgette, promises “a chance to bring all […]
From Sappho to Strozzi to Errollyn Wallen: Nardus Williams, Elizabeth Kenny & Mary Beard’s Women and Power at Wigmore Hall
Riana Duncan cartoon from Punch (1988) – From Flickr Women and power: Maddalena Casulana, Isabella de’ Medici, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Settimia Caccini, Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Claudia Sessa, Errollyn Wallen; Nardus Williams, Elizabeth Kenny, Mary […]
A rich feast of poetry, symbolism & mime: The Music Troupe in Edward Lambert’s Lorca-inspired In Five Years’ Time
Edward Lambert: In Five Years’ Time – James Schouten, Chris Murphy – The Music Troupe (Photo: Claire Shovelton) Edward Lambert: In Five Years’ Time; James Schouten, Rosalind Dobson, Mae Heydorn, Lucy Gibbs, Fiona Hymns, Jean-Max […]
Not only has German-born singer, Ute Lemper, found affection on the world’s stage as a cabaret-style performer, she’s also taken on starring roles in West End and Broadway musicals.
Ute Lempe (Photo: Steffen Thalemann) Ute Lemper: Berlin Cabaret; Ute Lempe, conductor: Robert Ziegler; Cambridge Music Festival at Cambridge Corn Exchange Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 5 March 2026 As part of the Cambridge Music Festival, […]
Primose Quartet in Beethoven & Mozart
Some wonderful quiet playing in my home town of Leytonstone last weekly Pitchsoe Music (members of Ensemble 360: Shostakovich, Britten and Beethoven Raz 2) se m on course to include some queer moment.And here it […]
Fun & fresh: flute/voice & guitar duo, Emily Andrews & Francisco Correa talk improvisation & collaboration on their new disc of Stephen Goss’s music
Emily Andrews & Francisco Correa during the recording of From Honey to Ashes Later this month, the Deux Elles label is issuing a two-disc set of music by composer Stephen Goss for flute and guitar […]
When hyperbole meets reality: the incomparable Lise Davidsen at the Met
One voice. On unique concert. So begins the Decca pess release fo this disc. And fo once, it’s ig. But it is Davidsen that is unique (concerts only happen once so they are by definition […]
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