I Fagiolini during recording sessions for the Benevoli project From Venice (to Rome) with Love – Benevoli: Missa Benevola, Monteverdi motets, Carissimi: Jephte; I Fagiolini, the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Lyons Mouth, Robert Hollingworth; Church […]
Jake Heggie (Photo: James Niebuhr) Jake Heggie‘s song cycle for soprano, violin and string quartet, Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope is receiving its UK premiere at violinist Madeleine Mitchell‘s The Red Violin Festival […]
Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto, Short Story, A Fist Full of Fives, Five Theatre Miniatures, War Horse Suite; Fenella Humphreys, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Seal; ChandosReviewed 2 October 2024 Best known for his music for the […]
Composer and pianist Louis Mander, fresh from the premiere of his opera The Waves (inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel) at the Oslo Opera Festival, is joining forces with narrator Zeb Soanes and tenor Will Diggle for an […]
ETERNITY IN AN HOUR – Jess Dandy and Keval Shah by Clare Park On Tuesday 15 October at Oxford International Song Festival, contralto Jess Dandy and pianist Keval Shah will give the world premiere of […]
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Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze was commissioned and first performed in 2015 by the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. A modern re-telling of the myth of the Minotaur (there is […]
Pierre-Gabriel BuffardinPrincipal flautist in the Hofkappelle in Dresden Bach: Cantatas BWV94, BWV114, BWV8, Buffardin: Flute Concerto in E minor; Hilary Cronin, Clint van der Linde, Charles Daniels, Edward Grint, Rachel Brown, London Handel Players, Adrian Butterfield; […]
Brighton Festival Chorus (BFC) was founded in 1968 and for that first performance they sang Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. BFC has gone on to have a long partnership with the Royal Philharmonic […]
Having given the UK premiere of Gounod’s opera La nonne sanglante in 2021, Gothic Opera are planning the UK stage premiere of another 19th century opera inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis’ gothic novel, The Monk. At […]
Chelys Consort of Viols, one of 27 groups awarded grants in the Continuo Foundation’s eighth round The Continuo Foundation has just announced its eighth round of grants, with £100,000 going to 27 early music ensembles […]
