.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "From Baroque ensemble & string quartet to composer & collaborative pianists: The City Music Foundation introduces its 2024 CMF Artists")
The City Music Foundation’s 2024 CMF Artists (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation (CMF) has announced its latest cohort of artists, its 11th intake. The 2024 CMF Artists are Aleksandra Myslek (collaborative piano), Duo Melus […]
Rossini: The Barber of Seville; Dominic Sedgwick, Nico Darmanin, Katie Bray, Grant Doyle, Trevor Eliot Bowes, director: Victoria Newlyn, conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren; West Green House OperaReviewed 28 July 2024 Performing the piece with real engagement […]
CBS/Columbia/Epic in the 50s and 60s. I won’t even try to unravel that nest of labels and subsidiaries here, or the reasoning behind such complexity of such arrangements in the first place. But SONY owns […]
Matthew O’Keeffe and Brixton Chamber Orchestra in action at Love Clapham Park Fun Day Brixton Chamber Orchestra, musical director Matthew O’Keeffe is coming to the end of its 2024 Summer Estates tour, appearing in community […]
The grandeur of Bach’s organ wiring coms across viscerally in this recording, but so dos its brilliant. Masaaki Suzuki, famous for Bach Collegium Japan and his Bach Cantata recordings (plus stupendous St Matthew and St […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Prom 10: Ryan Wigglesworth, Laura van der Heijden & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Britten, Cheryl Frances Hoad & Elgar")
Cheryl Frances Hoad: Cello Concerto ‘Earth, Sea, Air’ – Laura van der Heijden, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth – Prom 10 (Photo: BBC / Andy Paradise) Britten: Gloriana – symphonic suite, Cheryl Frances Hoad: […]
We met the Rautio Piano Trio prev9ously with a post entitled What was Beethoven’s Op. 1? The answer is three piano trios, and the ensemble played the first two of the on that Resonus Classics […]
One of Jane Austen’s manuscripts Gillian Dooley‘s book, She played and sang: Jane Austen and music, was published by Manchester University Press in March 2024. The book looks at the central role that music played […]
Steven Osborne (Photo: Ben Ealovega) JW3, the Jewish Community Centre London, is celebrating ten years and its classical season is returning for 2024/25 with six concerts beginning with pianist Steven Osborne in evocations of childhood […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Igor Levit, Joyce DiDonato, Thomas Adès: Southbank Centre's Opening Weekend launches its 2024/25 season")
Igor Levit (Photo: Felix Broede) The Southbank Centre’s 2024/25 season [see my preview] starts with a bang featuring a five-day Opening Weekend (25 to 29 September 2024) when Resident Orchestras and Resident Artists join with other […]
