There is a nationwide decline in organists and to try and stem this the Royal College of Organists (RCO) is devoting 2025 to its Play the Organ campaign, aiming not just to increase the number of people […]
Gweneth Ann Rand Florence Price: Some o’These Days, Bewilderment, Laura Bowler: Glue, Gravity, call it what you like…, Roxanna Panufnik: If I Don’t Know, Judith Weir: woman.life.song; Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper22 July 2025 Judith […]
Gniezno Cathedral and Lake Jelonek, Poland, where Mikołaj Zieleński worked(Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0/WikiMedia) Little is known of Mikołaj Zieleński beyond the fact that he published a major collection of works in 1611. On 14 August […]
Women gardeners (Image courtesy of the Garden Museum) Fiona Davison‘s discovery of letters written by Olive Harrisson, a talented gardener denied a scholarship by the Royal Horticultural Society “on account of being female”, led to […]
%20credit%20Genevieve%20Girling%20(1).jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Style & substance: Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet in Buxton is a rewarding musical & dramatic feast with the festival confidently stepping on the shoulders of its previous production")
Thomas: Hamlet – Gregory Feldmann – Buxton International Festival (Photo: Genevieve Girling) Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet; Gregory Feldmann, Yewon Han, Alastair Mile, Allison Cook, director Jack Furness, Orchestra of Opera North, conductor: Adrian Kelly; Buxton International […]
%20and%20Hanna%20Hipp%20(Dinah)%20Credit_%20Genevieve%20Girling%20(4).jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "The ennui of modern life: Bernstein & Poulenc's one-act operas from the 1950s in an intriguing double bill at Buxton International Festival")
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti – Charles Rice, Allison Cooke – Buxton International Festival (Photo: Genevieve Girling) Leonard Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti, Francis Poulenc: La voix humaine; Hanna Hipp, Charles Rice, Allison Cooke, Chloé Hare-Jones, Harun […]
%20Ali%20Wright.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Old-fashioned drama & a modern gloss: Cecilia Stinton's production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park with Jennifer France's debut in the title role")
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor – Tabitha Reynolds (ghost), Jennifer France – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Jennifer France, José de Eça, Morgan Pearse, director: Cecilia Stinton, conductor: Michael Papadopoulos, City […]
The Murdock-Whitney House, Winchendon History & Cultural Centre Andrew Arceci is an American viola da gamba, violone, and bass player who studied at the Peabody Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and at Oxford. His UK performances […]
Mozart’s Requiem: David Crown conducts Cheltenham Bach Choir and the Musical & Amicable Society at Cheltenham Town Hall This year the Cheltenham Music Festival celebrated its 80th birthday [see my review of the closing concert]. The […]
Following an inspiring weekend at the Southbank Centre for the Benedetti Foundation’s London Sessions, the mass orchestra (featuring over 200 young musicians) performed a new arrangement by Paul Campbell of Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No.1, including […]
