Two rare one-Act operas featuring stories of jealous, murderous lust, offer some fascinating juxtapositions – Der Wald (premiered 1902), Ethel Smyth’s second opera, but a late essay in Wagnerian Romanticism if more sensational (and written in German); and […]
Temple Church Ian Venables: Out of the Shadows, Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves, On Wenlock Edge, Love Bade me Welcome, Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows, Ian Venables: Portraits of Mind; Gwilym Bowen, Gareth […]
This was the conclusion of Edward Gardner’s Schubert cycle (we covered volume 3 here, . The great composer’s earlier symphonies produced daily regularly – round one a yea between 1813 and 1818. You might remember […]
Zemlinsky: The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) – Eleri Gwilym, Charne Rocheford Wexford Festival Opera (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Zemlinsky: The Dwarf (Der Zwerg); Eleri Gwilym, Charne Rocheford, Charlotte Baker, Ross Cumming, director Chris Moran, music director Christopher […]
Soprano, composer and alumna Monica McGhee will unveil her debut song cycle, The Pebbles We Keep, on Sunday 23 November at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in the Stevenson Hall. McGhee has taken poems penned […]
Bach: Mass in B Minor – Peter Whelan, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Bach: Mass in B minor; Rachel Redmond, Katie Bray, Hugh Cutting, Anthony Gregory, Matthew Brook, Irish Baroque Orchestra […]
I keep remembering how the Marmen Quartet blew me away playing Ligeti and Bartok on their debut recording for BIS earlier this year. It’s one of those momentous recordings which comes so rarely that it […]
Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims – Wexford Festival Opera (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims; Wexford Factory, director Rosetta Cucchi, conductor Manuel Hartinger, Wexford Festival Opera; National Opera HouseReviewed 31 October 2025 A […]
This years’ Christmas stack is tuning out to contain some exceptional releases, and this one is surely near or even at the top of the pile. This particular disc was relased on Halloween, so is […]
It’s been quite a year for Mark-Anthony Turnage, with the widely acclaimed premiere of Festen at the Royal Opera House, and now the premiere of another opera, The Railway Children, his first work for Glyndebourne. Festen adapted a 1990s Danish film, […]
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A meaty, not to say tough programme: Sakari Oramo, Guy Johnston & BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Cello Symphony, Turnage premiere & Sibelius at the BBC Proms")
