.png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A declaration of love to a composer who, in many ways, transformed my path as a “classical” musician: pianist Vanessa Wagner on Philip Glass' Etudes")
Vanessa Wagner has been one of France’s most distinctive pianists for more than twenty years, equally at home in the classical repertoire and in contemporary music. Her latest project is the complete recording of Philip […]
Gluck: Iphigenia in Tauris; Francesca Chiejina, Danny Shelvey, Michael Lafferty, Dan D’Souza, director: Laura Attridge, Blackheath Halls Opera, conductor: Chris Stark; Blackheath HallsReviewed 23 September 2025 A sense of classicism and community combine with compelling […]
Natalie Clein & her cello whose acquisition was facilitated by The Stradivari Trust(Photo: Michael Staab) The Stradivari Trust is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Created in 1985 by Cambridge entrepreneur and philanthropist Nigel Brown, the trust’s aim […]
%20Laura%20Oja%20(4).jpeg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "New music, new appointments, Studio Ghibli & Queen: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's London season opens this week")
Emilia Hoving (Photo: Laura Oja) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s London season opens this week. They will be performing Mozart and Mendelsohn at the Windsor Festival tonight with conductor Alexander Shelley, music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra […]
Kenneth Woods & the English Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Michael Whitefoot) Based in Elgar’s home-town of Malvern, the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO), artistic director Kenneth Woods, is inevitably associated with the music of Elgar and their […]
Photo Credit: Royal Scottish National Orchestra © John Young A new survey has found that people who followed a career in the sciences, education and finance found it particularly beneficial to have access to […]
Hummel: Quintet, Bertini: Grand Sextuor; Sestetto Classico; MDGReviewed by Andreas Rey (22 September 2025) Two large-scale chamber works from the fringes of the repertoire from composers sitting between Mozart and Beethoven in fresh, idiomatic performances […]
Jakob Lehmann (Photo: Sercan Sevindik) As the Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique makes its first foray into Rossini, we talk to conductor Jakob Lehmann about his passion for music of the period, how we need to […]
Haydn: L’incontro improvviso – Ava Dodd, Stephanie Hershaw, Chelsea Zurflüh, The Mozartists – Opera in 1775 – Cadogan Hall Opera in 1775: Tozzi, Fischietti, Mozart, Myslivecek, J.C. Bach, Haydn, Sacchini; Ava Dodd, Stephanie Hershaw, Chelsea […]
Don’t miss the love:Handel Music Festival from The Brook Street Band this Autumn… Photo: Dan Bridge The award-winning Brook Street Band return to one of their favourite cities, Norwich, for the love:Handel Baroque music festival […]
