.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A themed programme with an imaginative difference: Music from Pole to Pole with City of London Sinfonia and atmospheric physicist Dr Simon Clark")
Music from Pole to Pole – City of London Sinfonia and Dr Simon Clark at Smith Square Hall – (Photo: Suzi Corker) Music from Pole to Pole: Caroline Shaw, Webern, Dvorak, Lutosławski, Osvaldo Golijov, Marais, […]
For their latest show, playwright/singer Clare Norburn and her company The Telling have turned to the private life of Charles Dickens. With an estranged wife and teenage mistress, he doesn’t quite live up to the […]
Unsuk Chin, Bartók, Debussy, Ravel Bertrand Chamayou (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dinis Souza (conductor) Unsuk Chin Alaraph, ‘Ritual of the heartbeat’ (2022, London premiere) Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz 119 / BB 127 (1945) Debussy La […]
Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in this exciting performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony, the work that epitomizes the composer’s music perhaps more than any other. He brought out in distinctive […]
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Jonathan Dove: Itch – Adam Temple Smith as Itch and Victoria Simmonds as Watkins – Opera Holland Park 2023 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Celebrating the best new classical music and sound art, this year’s Ivors Classical […]
En Couleur: Saint-Saens, Ravel, Tailleferre, Debussy, Milhaud; Trio Colores (Fabian Ziegler, Luca Staffelbach and Matthias Kessper); Solo MusicaReviewed 7 October 2024 Sensitivity of touch and an ear for timbre and colour bring a sense of […]
Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Photo: Felix Grünschloß) Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers has a fascinatingly international history, the work was written to a French libretto by a France-based American, premiered in German […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Earth Unwrapped: Sirens for a wounded planet - Kings Place's latest year-long series announced")
Kings Place’s 17th instalment in its year-long Unwrapped series will be exploring our relationship with nature and the eco-system, plant life and ornithology, the climate crisis, activism, protest and more, through music and spoken word. Earth Unwrapped, […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "nonclassical at 20: legendary music promoter celebrates with a concert alongside the London Symphony Orchestra including five world premieres")
“in music many people are never exposed to long-form compositions, or more challenging works; and I think they should be“nonclassical founder, Gabriel Prokofiev nonclassical in action (Photo: Nick Rutter) Music promoter, record label and events […]
Queen Elizabeth I awaiting the performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in the Marble Hall at Hatfield House Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Schubert: String Quintet in C; Claire Booth, Ensemble 360, Magnus Johnston, Max Baillie, Brett Dean, […]
