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 […]
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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 […]
If you haven’t yet come across Michael Haydn (1727-1805), then now is the chance to meet his most civilised of composers. Think J. C. Bach, the “London” Bach. Michael Haydn was trained musically at St […]
What a great coupling! Two Mozart Concertos for multiple keyboards, plus the Poulenc. A match made in heaven. The same could be said fo the performers, a true family team (Kent Nagano, his wife, and […]
Kangmin Justin Kim (Song Liling) and Mark Stone (René Gallimard) in rehearsal for the premiere of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly at the Santa Fe Opera in 2022(Photo: Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera) Four music […]
Acis and Galatea (Bärenreiter Edition) Composed by George Frederick Handel Libretto by John Gay after Ovid’s Metamorphoses Cast and Production staff: Acis: Anthony Gregory; Galatea: Elizabeth Karani; Polyphemus: Chuma Sijeqa; Ruairi Bowen; Director: Louise Bakker; […]
Charles Villiers Stanford: Te Deum, Elegiac Ode; Rhian Lois, Samantha Price, Alessandro Fisher, Morgan Pearse, BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Adrian Partington; LYRITAReviewed 23 July 2024 Written 35 years before his pupil Holst’s […]
Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya: concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North (Photo Justin Slee) Opera North’s Resonance residency programme was launched in 2017 to offer funding, space, time and technical support […]
A new festival will be enlivening the City of London in October. The rather awkwardly named City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge runs from 10 to 24 October 2024 with a series of evening […]
Gundaris Pone: La Serenissima, seven Venetian portraits for orchestra, American Portraits, Avanti!; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma, Normunds Šnē; SKANIReviewed 22 July 2024 The first studio recordings of three of Gundaris Pone’s large-scale orchestral works reveal a […]
