Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 – Hans Christian Aavik, Neeme Järvi, Glasperlenspiel Sinfonietta – Glasperlenspiel Festival at St John’s Church, Tartu Named for Hermann Hesse’s last full-length novel, Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game), the […]
Donizetti: The Elixir of Love – James Atkinson – Wild Arts 2023 (Photo: Lucy J Toms) We humans, alone on earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then to destroy them. But we have […]
Handel: Giulio Cesare – Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Louise Alder – Glyndebourne, 2024 (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Louise Alder, Beth Taylor, Svetlina Stoyanova, Cameron Shahbazi, director: David […]
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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire – Claire Booth & Nash Ensemble at Aldeburgh Festival, 2024 (Photo: Marcus Roth (c) Britten Pears Arts) Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn have previous when it comes to focusing on […]
Northern Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Sara Porter, 2022) The theme of Mozart on Tour threads its way through the Northern Chamber Orchestra’s 2024/25 season of concerts in Macclesfield (largely but not exclusively at The King’s School). […]
How are the mighty fallen: Choral music by Giovanni Bononcini; Rowan Pierce, Esther Lay, Helen Charlston, Guy Cutting, Giles Underwood, Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Owen Rees; Signum Classics25 June 2024 […]
If you fancy an Autumn weekend in Norway, then the Engegård Quartet is offering a deep dive into the chamber music and songs of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. The Engegård Quartet [whom we heard recently at […]
Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer Estates Tour 2023 One of Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s central tenets is a belief that that orchestral music should be at the centre of society, reaching people in their own community, and […]
BBC and Young Sounds UK Exchange programme in 2022 (Photo: BBC) The five BBC orchestras – the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – […]
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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire – Claire Booth, the Nash Ensemble – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Marcus Roth, (c) Britten Pears Arts) Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Beethoven, Julian Anderson, Judith Weir, Mozart; Claire Booth, The Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins; […]
