A caricature of a performance of Handel’s Flavio (from 1723) featuring Senesino and Francesca Cuzzoni with Berenstadt (far right) Handel’s opera Rodelinda was premiered 300 years ago this year, on 13 February 1725 at the King’s […]
This is utterly remarkable: Elgar’s familiar but always affecting oratorio on original instruments, the centre of which is the Gabrieli Consort and Players! The instrumenrium is carefully researched: and even includes Elgar’s own trombone! There […]
Nicola Benedetti (Photo: Laurence Winram) The full programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival has been released, the third festival under Nicola Benedetti’s artistic directorship. This year celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival […]
Pegasus Opera’s mentoring programme with Danielle de Niese in 2024 Pegasus Opera launched its opera mentoring programme in 2020 in response to the continued underrepresentation of classical artists of global majority heritage on the UK […]
Weber: Der Freischütz – The Wolf’s Glen Scene – Ilker Arcayürek, Manuel Winckhler – Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Photo: Annemie Augustijns) Weber: Der Freischütz; Louise Kemény, Ilker Arcayürek, Rosemary Hardy, Thomas Jesatko, director: Christoph Marthaler, conductor: […]
Not a CD, DVD or concert retire today but deails of a project hat may well be of interest from one of the most increasing musicians out there, from his publicists: Johann Sebastian Bach was […]
Stéphane Denève led a superb performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem for which no recording had fully prepared me for the overwhelming emotional impact of this concert. In War Requiem, Britten, a lifelong pacifist, juxtaposes the […]
Florilegium at Wigmore Hall Florilegium; Ashley Solomon (flute/director); with Helen Charlston (mezzo). Wigmore Hall, 11.03.2025 Telemann Ouveture-Suite in A,TWV 55:A1. Cantata, Ihr Volker hört J. S. Bach Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079: Ricercar a 6 Telemann Cantata, Ihr Völker […]
Rebecca Meltzer, Bertie Baigent & Guy Verrall-Withers with the Waterperry Opera Festival team in 2024 The arts administration world is relatively compact, which means that whenever someone moves there is a domino effect. The Grange […]
Ravel celebrations continue with this lovely disc from Stanisław Skrowaczewski’s Minnesota years, original 1974 analogue Vox recordings. newly remastered from the original tapes. The best compliment I can give the remastering (Andrew Walton) is that […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
