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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Marcio da Silva, Joshua Furtado-Mendes – Ensemble OrQesta at Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival, 2024 Ensemble OrQuesta, artistic director Marcio da Silva, whom we last heard at the […]

Violinist Roman Mints is the artistic director of WE ARE! Concert in Support of Ukraine, a night of music and solidarity to support Ukraine on Sunday 26 January 2025 at St John’s Church, Waterloo. The […]

Silvesterkonzert – Artists of Circus Roncalli, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Paul Daniel – Tempodrom, Berlin (Photo: Peter Adamik) Torsten Rasch: Pataphor; Beethoven: Symphony no.9 in D minor; Mirjam Mesak, Emily D’Angelo, Christopher Sokolowski, Christof […]

Ben Goldscheider & Gavin Higgins at the London premiere of Gavin Higgins’ Horn Concerto with London Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Jerome Weatherald) 2024 saw us writing 545 articles, from William Christie and Les Arts Florissants celebrating […]

Early and late feature heavily in this year’s selection, but in the middle a pair of individual performances stand out. The white-hot dramatic impetus of John Osborn’s account of the title role in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète […]

Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque music featured highly this year, Lawrence Cummings and the AAM used just eight singers for their moving version […]

Britten: Death in Venice – Antony César (Tadzio), Frederico Saggese (Jaschiu) – Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson) It was one of those evenings about which you can say ‘I was there’, Wagner’s Die Walküre […]

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Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story; Choir of Merton College, Oxford, The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, Owen Chan & Francois Cloete (organ), Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas (conductor); DELPHIAN   Edward Nesbit: Nativity, Wycliffe Carols, […]

Signed handwritten draft of Thomas Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush with original title Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Concerto grosso in F minor Op.1 No.8; Alessandro Stradella: Ah! troppo e ver, Sonata di viole ‘Concerto-concerto grosso’, Caroline Shaw: The Holdfast, Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto […]