.png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Transported by Culture: a new music programme brings young musicians from London conservatoires to the London Transport Museum")
If you have visited the London Transport Museum at all, recently, then it is likely to have been for its iconic transport collection. After all, few of us can resist an historic bus or a […]
Reynaldo Hahn in 1906 Ravel, Fauré, Lili Boulanger, Saint-Saens, Hahn: Piano Quartet; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective; Wigmore HallReviewed 26 January 2025 Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Quartet undoubtedly looks back, so this programme took that as its cue […]
Anna Dennis Handel: Susanna; Anna Dennis, Alexander Chance, Jessica Cale, Joshua Ellicott, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt; Church of St Martin in the FieldsReviewed 24 January 2025 Given complete, this wonderfully involving account of […]
%20Steven%20Daverson%202024.JPG?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background: from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Steven Daverson's new work for orchestra and live electronics")
As part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra‘s Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics day at the Barbican on Sunday 23 February 2025, Ilan Volkov will be conducting the orchestra in the UK premiere of Steven Daverson‘s Figures […]
The audience at Crail Church at the East Neuk Festival, 2024 (Photo: Neil Hanna) The 20th East Neuk Festival will fill some of East Fife’s most stunning seaside locations with line-up of classical, jazz, folk, and […]
Senesino by John Vandenbank. Private Collection, UK. © The Handel House Trust/Christopher Ison. It is 300 years since Handel first wrote and presented Rodelinda, the second of three masterpieces that he wrote just after moving […]
Concertos for the Left Hand: Ravel, Korngold; Mathias Halvorsen, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Otto Tausk; Backlash MusicReviewed 22 January 2025 Two Paul Wittgenstein associated works, one known, one lesser-known, both receive towering performances that bring out […]
Manchester Camerata & Kantos explore space with the James Webb Space Telescope The Manchester Camerata will be giving a pair of concerts in its home, the Monastery in Gorton, Manchester [see my 2023 article about […]
Eyra Norman, Abhisri Chaudhuri, Nicky Spence The London Song Festival and Schubert Society have announced the winners of the 2024 London Song Festival Masterclass & Schubert Song Prize Competition. The 2024 Masterclass and Schubert Song […]
Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) was a Russian-born French painter whose turbulent life often overshadowed his short career. Composer John Casken describes de Staël’s canvases as being as vibrant and vivid of any artist working at […]
,%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")
