Heinichen and Telemann: Early Cantatas
This is.wonderful disc. Don’t let the “early” bit put you off: there is such joy and sorrow here, such craftsmanship. And the conjoining of Heinichen and Telemann results in the dream team you never knew […]
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BBCSO @ the Barbican – Vaughan Williams, Carwithen & Arnold
A respectable turnout greeted this quietly audacious programme. We began with the only item likely to be familiar to mainstream concertgoers whatever the variability of its line-up. The BBC Singers, who might have been joining […]
News Post: Oxford Philharmonic update
A quick update o the activities of the Oxford Philharmonic today, an orchestra we have featured several times before! … remember the Vengerov Brahms Gala? 10th April – In this concert that features Humperdinck’s Prelude from […]
London Handel Festival – Floridante with Hilary Summers, Beth Taylor & Rowan Pierce Mhairi Lawson, – Early Opera Company/Curnyn
Floridante (1721) was the second full length work which Handel composed for his opera company, the Royal Academy of Music (in between that and Radamisto in 1720 had come his one Act contribution to Muzio […]
A somewhat eclectic yet satisfying journey: Swiss baritone Äneas Humm explores ideas of freedom in songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Amy Beach, and Joseph Marx
Libertas: Beethoven, Schubert, Beach, Marx; Äneas Humm, Doriana Tchakarova; Rondeau ProductionReviewed 19 April 2025 The young Swiss baritone explores ideas of personal freedom in an intriguing recital that moves from Beethoven and Schubert to Amy Beach (in German) […]
The return of Xiaogang Ye
Xiaogang Ye is no strange to Classical Explorer: nice to see a whole disc of his chamber music on the Resonus label. This music here, spans over three decades of Ye’s chamber works from 1989 […]
A lonely death leaves a legacy of courage and resolve: the Pavel Kushnir Scholarship Fund
Pavel Kushnir (1984-2024) Pavel Kushnir (1984-2024) was a Russian pianist, author, and activist who became the first political prisoner in modern Russia to die during a hunger strike in 2024 [see the 25 August 2024 article […]
Telemann Paris Quartets, Volume 1: Six Quadri from the London Handel Players
My goodness, the quality in Telemann’s works is high. Soon, we’ll be looking at a disc of early cantatas (along with a work by Heinichen) on cpo, but t’s time for chamber music: the first […]
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Utopian ideals & cross-cultural dialogue: Jocelyn Freeman’s SongEasel takes song to South-East London with a focus on Robert & Clara Schumann
Jocelyn Freeman and Francesca Chiejina at SongEasel’s 2024 series A Vast Obscurity Pianist Jocelyn Freeman’s South-East London-based song series, SongEasel goes from strength to strength and their seventh concert series, DREAMS: A Place, runs from 10 […]
A choral equivalent of John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine? Bernard Hughes’ Hear My Heart Sing to be performed by the National Youth Choir
The National Youth Choir (15-18 years), conductor Neil Ferris, is presenting Heart and Soul, a programme exploring themes of life, friendship, courage and love through the voices of different composers from a mix of cultures, […]
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