One of Jane Austen’s manuscripts Gillian Dooley‘s book, She played and sang: Jane Austen and music, was published by Manchester University Press in March 2024. The book looks at the central role that music played […]
Steven Osborne (Photo: Ben Ealovega) JW3, the Jewish Community Centre London, is celebrating ten years and its classical season is returning for 2024/25 with six concerts beginning with pianist Steven Osborne in evocations of childhood […]
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Igor Levit (Photo: Felix Broede) The Southbank Centre’s 2024/25 season [see my preview] starts with a bang featuring a five-day Opening Weekend (25 to 29 September 2024) when Resident Orchestras and Resident Artists join with other […]
Kangmin Justin Kim (Song Liling) and Mark Stone (René Gallimard) in rehearsal for the premiere of Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly at the Santa Fe Opera in 2022(Photo: Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera) Four music […]
Charles Villiers Stanford: Te Deum, Elegiac Ode; Rhian Lois, Samantha Price, Alessandro Fisher, Morgan Pearse, BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Adrian Partington; LYRITAReviewed 23 July 2024 Written 35 years before his pupil Holst’s […]
Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya: concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North (Photo Justin Slee) Opera North’s Resonance residency programme was launched in 2017 to offer funding, space, time and technical support […]
A new festival will be enlivening the City of London in October. The rather awkwardly named City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge runs from 10 to 24 October 2024 with a series of evening […]
Gundaris Pone: La Serenissima, seven Venetian portraits for orchestra, American Portraits, Avanti!; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma, Normunds Šnē; SKANIReviewed 22 July 2024 The first studio recordings of three of Gundaris Pone’s large-scale orchestral works reveal a […]
The University of Birmingham’s Elgar Concert Hall The University of Birmingham has announced its programme of lunchtime and evening concerts for 2024/24, the Barber Concerts taking place in the Elgar Concert Hall in the university’s […]
Twogether Duo and Carol Main Live Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their careers with professional performance and training opportunities, making live music accessible […]
