Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire (2): Divertimento al Cembalo Accademia Strumenale Italiana; Église Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Blanzaguet Saint Cybard, France, 02.08.2025 Haydn Divertimento in C, Hob..XV:C1 (published London, 1772) Mozart Divertimento […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Opening Recital Sonata and Fantasy Gerard de Wit (origan); Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025 Bach Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV 559. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV Anh. […]
The animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British network TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which means that it is now available on BBC iPlayer until next year! Adapted […]
Zoë Beyers leads Britten Sinfonia at Westminster Abbey (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten Sinfonia has announced that violinist Zoë Beyers is to become the orchestra’s new Leader. She will replace Jacqueline Shave and Thomas Gould, who […]
Cyrill Ibrahim From September 2025, pianist Cyrill Ibrahim will be the new artist in residence at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. A firm believer in bringing classical music into the mainstream, Ibrahim will support World Heart Beat’s […]
La cambiale di matrimonio (1810) is the work with which the 18-year-old Rossini burst upon the operatic stage (San Moisè, Venice in this case). Although it wasn’t the first opera he composed (Demetrio e Polibio […]
Barbara Hepworth: Sphere with Inner Form, 1963, at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands 50 years after her death, a new violin concerto will be celebrating the life and legacy of sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Commissioned […]
Evening concert at Glasgow Cathedral Festival Glasgow Cathedral Festival returns from 18–21 September 2025, for its ninth edition bringing life to Glasgow’s medieval cathedral with site-specific live music, film, theatre, art, talks and tours, and this […]
A detail of A C Pugin’s drawing of the Entrance Hall, Brighton Pavilion c1821 English piano maker Thomas Tomkison (c1764-1853) made a succession of instruments for the Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and then […]
Staging a long, serious opera such as Zelmira (1822) based on myth and ancient history presents quite a challenge on its own terms, to keep an audience engaged with its plot twists and extensive arias. […]
