Brindley Sherratt (Photo: Film and Star) The Grange Festival (which is based at The Grange, Northington in Hampshire) has announced that the bass, Brindley Sherratt will be stepping up to take the reins as artistic […]
Tabea Debus (Photo: Kaupo Kikkas) Recorder player extraordinare Tabea Debus is joining York Early Music Festival as guest artistic advisor. She joins the current team of artistic advisers Lindsay Kemp (music writer and producer), Peter […]
Trio Musae A new partnership between Burgh House, in Hampstead, and Chamber Studio will create a residency programme for emerging chamber ensembles at Burgh House. Selected string quartets and trios will take part in a […]
The young German-American cellist Daniel Dorn (born 2008) has just started studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Guy Johnston. He began playing the cello at the age of three, and at ten, he […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Britten's War Requiem: Edward Gardner takes an uncompromising & severe view softened by the poetic attention to the words from soloists in London Philharmonic Orchestra's season opener")
Britten: War Requiem – Edward Gardner, Benjamin Appl, Paul ApplebyLondon Philharmonic Orchestra (Photo: Andy Paradise) Britten: War Requiem; Natalya Romaniw, Paul Appleby, Benjamin Appl, London Philharmonic Choir, Tiffin Boys Choir & Girls Choir, London Philharmonic […]
It has been a busy week for live CD launches. On Wednesday harpists Oliver Wass and Lise Vandermissen had a joint launch at St Pancras Clocktower for Wass’s Musica per arpa on Tactus and Vandermissen’s […]
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas in rehearsal – Michael Lafferty (Aeneas), Samantha Price (Dido) & ensemble – English Touring Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) As part of English Touring Opera‘s (ETO) Autumn season they are performing Purcell’s […]
Songs We Carry – Patrick Rimes, Ana Silvera, Saied Silbak – Sinfonia Cymru Ladino song, Arabic music and Welsh folksong: Songs We Carry, Sinfonia Cymru’s latest cross-cultural project brings together singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ana Silvera, composer, […]
%20(c)%20Chris%20Christodoulou.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Not quite the sum of its parts: starry casting with Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu & Bryn Terfel fails to lift Oxford International Opera's debut with Puccini's Tosca")
Puccini: Tosca (Act Three) – Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu – Oxford International Opera (Photo: Chris Christodoulou) Puccini: Tosca; Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu, Bryn Terfel, director: P Burton-Morgan, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Marios Papadopoulos; Oxford International […]
Bizet: Carmen – Katie Bray, Oliver Johnston – Blackheath Halls Opera (Photo: Julian Guidera) Bizet: Carmen; Katie Bray, Oliver Johnston, Meeta Raval, Chuma Sijeqa, director: Harry Fehr, conductor: Christopher Stark, Blackheath Halls Opera; Blackheath HallsReviewed […]
%20Graham%20Boulton.jpeg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Celebrating John Joubert at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in advance of his 2027 centenary")
