Handel: Deidamia – Nicolò Balducci – Wexford Festival Opera (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Handel: Deidamia; Sophie Junker, Nicolò Balducci, Sarah Gilford, Bruno de Sá, Rory Musgrave, Petros Magoulas, George Petrou, Wexford Festival Opera; National Opera House, […]
Verdi: Le Trouvère – Wexford Festival Opera (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Verdi: Le Trouvère; Lydia Grindatto, Eduardo Niave, Giorgi Lomiseli, Kseniia Nikolaieva, Luca Gallo, director: Ben Barnes, conductor: Manuel Hartinger, Wexford Festival Opera; National Opera House, […]
City Music Foundation Artists 2025 (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) The City Music Foundation has announced the new cohort of artists joining the CMF Artist Programme as ‘2025 CMF Artists. Becoming a 2025 CMF Artist will mean […]
Asadbek Turgunov Last year composer and teacher Elisabetta Brusa introduced her Brusa Foundation Award in an article for us [see Elisabetta’s article]. The award is to give opportunities to composers who recreate new, free and […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
The Magdalene Songs – Deirdre Brenner, Lotte Betts-Dean – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) The Magdalene Songs: Elaine Agnew, Elaine Brennan, Rhona Clarke, Deirdre McKay; Lotte Betts-Dean, Deirdre Brenner; Oxford International Song Festival […]
Mark Rogers, Hugo Brady – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) Moore’s Melodies: traditional, Stanford, Ina Boyle, Schumann, Duparc, Barber, Britten, Johnny Patterson; Hugo Brady, Mark Rogers; Oxford International Song Festival at the Holywell […]
Baba Yaga: Songs & Dances of Death – Sholto Kynoch, Ana Dordevic, Carola Schwab, Rowan Hellier – Oxford International Song Festival (Photo: TallWall Media) Baba Yaga: Songs and Dances of Death – Elena Langer, Mussorgsky, […]
Oliver Johnston Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Shostakovich: Six romances on texts by Japanese poets, Elena Langer: Two Mandelstam Songs, Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Oliver Johnston, Natalie BurchShostakovich: A life in Song: Philip Ross Bullock, […]
Schubert: Trout Quintet – Mikhail Kopelman, Loïc Rio, Laurent Marfaing, François Kieffer, Grigory Kovalevsky, Elisabeth Leonskaja (Photo © Nathanael Charpentier / © Association La Clé des Portes) First concert (presented by Clément Rochefort)JS Bach: Cello […]
Jess Gillam, Tom Fetherstonhaugh & Fantasia Orchestra in rehearsal (Photo: Fantasia Orchestra) In May last year I chatted conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh [see my interview] about Fantasia Orchestra which he founded way back in 2016 (when he […]
