.png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Secret rendezvous and Queens in disguise: Pegasus Opera stage Ethel Smyth's Fête galante and Philip Hagemann's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets")
Ethel Smyth wrote six operas of which the best-known is The Wreckers though it is hardly common currency. But what about the others, after all she wrote three more after The Wreckers. The Boatswains Mate gets performed, […]
Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Glasshouse The Glasshouse International Centre for Music has announced its 2025/26 season. The Royal Northern Sinfonia form a large component of the season, the orchestra celebrating both Dinis Sousa’s continuation as […]
Be Still My Heart: songs by Robert Gund and William Grosz; Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch; Alpha ClassicsReviewed 29 April 2025 Two Vienna-based late-Romantic composers whose songs have disappeared from sight on a disc where the […]
Konstantin Krimmel (Photo: Guido Werner) This year’s Oxford International Song Festival takes as its theme Stories in Song and from 10 to 25 October 2025, artistic director Sholto Kynoch and his team are presenting 67 […]
Maurice Greene: Jephtha; Andrew Staples, Mary Bevan, Michael Mofidian, Jeremy Budd, Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn; CHANDOSReviewed 28 April 2025 Written well before Handel really welded oratorio in his own form of music drama, Maurice […]
Stationers Hall In 1683, a group of musicians and music lovers got together as the Musical Society of London and organised a St Cecilia’s Day concert (22 November) for which Henry Purcell wrote Welcome to all the […]
1803 portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman This weekend, 3 and 4 May 2025, Conway hall is having an immersive event giving us the opportunity to hear hear all of Beethoven’s major chamber works with […]
Louise Farrenc in 1835 Michael Haydn: Divertimento in G, Louise Farrenc: Nonet in E flat, George Onslow: Nonet in A minor; Zoffany Ensemble – Manon Derome, violin, Rachel Roberts, viola, Anthony Pleeth, cello, Lynda Houghton, […]
Jack Bazalgette (Photo: Ehimetalor Unuabona) Jack Bazalgette is perhaps best known as the co-founder and director of through the noise, which since 2020 has programmed more than 130 classical music concerts in non-traditional venues using […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "From RVW's Sancta Civitas & Bliss' The Beatitudes to Reich's The Desert Music & Birtwistle's Earth Dances, plus 19 premieres: the BBC Proms 2025")
This years BBC Proms are the first under the stewardship of Sam Jackson, controller of BBC Radio 3 who took over the Proms this year from David Pickard. Running from 18 July to 13 September, […]
