Edward Dick’s production of Puccini’s Tosca with Robert Hayward as Scarpia at Opera North in 2023 (Photo: James Glossop) Welsh National Opera celebrates its 80th anniversary during the 2024/25 season and whilst the current financial climate […]
György Kurtág and Benjamin Appl during the recording of Lines of Life The great Hungarian composer György Kurtág is 99 today. This week Kurtág’s album, Lines of Life, with baritone Benjamin Appl, and pianists James Baillieu […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Real musical riches: Thea Musgrave's major operatic statement, Mary, Queen of Scots returns to the UK after an embarrassing period of neglect")
Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots – Heidi Stober – English National Opera, 2025 (Photo: Ellie Kurttz) Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots; Heidi Stober, Alex Otterburn, Rupert Charlesworth, John Findon, director: Stewart Laing, conductor: Joana Carneiro; […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Student and professor collaborations, music by Bacewicz, Beamish, Takemitsu, Turina, & more at the Guildhall School's Chamber Music Festival")
Guildhall Chamber Music Festival. Photo by Paul Cochrane. From 14 to 16 March 2025, Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents its annual chamber music festival at Milton Court Concert Hall, bringing together most talented current […]
Julian Joseph All things piano are being celebrated at the Piano in the Elms Festival, curated by World Heat Beat. The festival takes place from 12 to 15 March 2025, at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, state-of-the-art digital […]
Philip Glass: Ifè: Three Yorùbá Songs – Angélique Kidjo, The Hallé – The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (Photo: Sharyn Bellemakers/The Hallé) Philip Glass: Days and Nights in Rochina; Ifè: Three Yorùbá Songs (UK première), Eleventh Symphony; […]
Reclaiming Love: An Alternative Valentines – Britten, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Cole Porter, RVW, Brahms; Song in the City, Sam Cobb, Charlie Morris, Jonathan Hanley, Thomas Litchev, Gavin Roberts, Anna Reiley; St Giles Cripplegate14 February 2025 Billed […]
Michael Zev Gordn at site of his grandfather’s murder in Summer 1941 (image from DW video). Any human calamity raises thoughts about how such events might be referred to in music, and how an essentially […]
.jpg.webp?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Music in the Museum: London Transport Museum's Transported by Culture: Music presents a weekly programme of music in the museum's gallery")
Starting today (14 February 2025) and running until 24 October 2025, the London Transport Museum’s Transported by Culture: Music presents a weekly programme of music in the museum’s gallery at 2pm every Friday, apart from holidays. The young musicians […]
.png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Make some noise to save the School of Music: Musicians gather in mass demonstration to protest proposed axing of Cardiff University’s School of Music on Saturday 22 February")
Last month (28 January), Cardiff University confirmed plans to close Cardiff University School of Music, a facility that has produced outstanding musicians, boasting a wealth of alumni, including lWelsh composers Karl Jenkins, Grace Williams and […]
