.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "18 premieres, three new commissions and a new disc: Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn")
Odaline de la Martinez Composer/conductor Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn, and is doing so in a typically dynamic fashion with a return of her London Festival of American Music that […]
Euripedes’ classic tragedy Medea has inspired writers and artists across the centuries as well as playwrights directly reinterpreting Euripedes’ original (hands up those who have heard a performance of the original Ancient Greek!). Now Thee Black Swan, […]
One of Cambrian Harps’ Discover the Harp sessions Cambrian Harps, a company from the heart of Wales specialising in making harps and encouraging harp playing, is on a mission to show the country and the […]
Robin Haigh: LUCK – Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia, Jessica Cottis – Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings, 2024 (Photo: Angus Cooke) Purcell: Chaconny in G minor, Handel: Organ Concerto in D minor, Op.7, No.4, Robin Haigh: […]
Songs for Peter Pears: Berkeley, Britten, Arthur Oldham, Richard Rodney Bennett, Geoffrey Bush; Robin Tritschler, Malcolm Martineau, Sean Shibe, Philip Higham; Signum ClassicsReviewed 11 June 2024 Exploring the wide variety of music written for and […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Second view: Anna Patalong makes her role debut as Puccini's Tosca at Opera Holland Park")
Puccini: Tosca – Opera Holland Park, 2024 (Photo: Ali Wright) Puccini: Tosca; Anna Patalong, José de Eça, Morgan Pearse, director: Stephen Barlow, conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren, City of London Sinfonia; Opera Holland ParkReviewed 12 June […]
The Yorkshire region has a rich musical history from the Arctic Monkeys to the Minster Choir, film composer John Barry to the National Centre for Early Music. But like many people and organisations, Richard Shephard Music Foundation […]
Charles Mauleverer: Overture; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lee Reynolds, Prague Symphonic Ensemble, Jérôme Kuhn, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Vogel; WotunoReviewed 11 June 2024 Ten short orchestral pieces by film composer Charles Mauleverer, spanning some […]
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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits at Bristol Beacon (Photo: Giulia Spadafora) Bristol Beacon reopened in November 2023 following a radical transformation which has seen significant improvement in the appearance and function of the main […]
Messiaen: Hawari – Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper – Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival (Photo Britten Pears Arts) Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert; English Touring Opera, dir. Robin Norton-Hale, cond. Gerry CorneliusMessiaen song-cycles; Gweneth Ann […]
,%20Jessica%20Cale%20(Giulietta)%20(c)%20Richard%20Hubert%20Smith.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Musical magic moments: Bellini's The Capulets & the Montagues at English Touring Opera takes us firmly into the 1950s and New York's mean streets")
