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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire – Claire Booth & Nash Ensemble at Aldeburgh Festival, 2024 (Photo: Marcus Roth (c) Britten Pears Arts) Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn have previous when it comes to focusing on […]
Frothy delights from France via Estonia! The esteemed conductor Neeme Järvi leads the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in this wonderfully upbeat disc; bu a disc that has a real purpose. the Works of Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit […]
Northern Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Sara Porter, 2022) The theme of Mozart on Tour threads its way through the Northern Chamber Orchestra’s 2024/25 season of concerts in Macclesfield (largely but not exclusively at The King’s School). […]
It’s always intrigued me why, if Schubert was such a fine composer of songs (and he was), why don’t we hear his operas? There are quite a few, after all, so why not start with […]
How are the mighty fallen: Choral music by Giovanni Bononcini; Rowan Pierce, Esther Lay, Helen Charlston, Guy Cutting, Giles Underwood, Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Owen Rees; Signum Classics25 June 2024 […]
If you fancy an Autumn weekend in Norway, then the Engegård Quartet is offering a deep dive into the chamber music and songs of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. The Engegård Quartet [whom we heard recently at […]
I have enjoyed many CDs over the years from the Belgian chamber ensemble, Oxalys. On the Fuga Libera label, the Mozart and Ries Flute Quartets are simply glorious. And more recently on Passacaille, entire albums of […]
Opening in a blaze of raw Handelian energy, this is a disc for the ages. Three psalms: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus, all magnificently shaped by Justin Doyle with a simply superb line-up of […]
Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer Estates Tour 2023 One of Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s central tenets is a belief that that orchestral music should be at the centre of society, reaching people in their own community, and […]
BBC and Young Sounds UK Exchange programme in 2022 (Photo: BBC) The five BBC orchestras – the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – […]
