Classical Music Reviews
Why compose? After a career in film & TV, composer Gavin Greenaway is developing his own voice with Skylines, the new album from his Cloud Chamber duo with Caroline Dale
Cloud Chamber: Gavin Greenaway & Caroline Dale (Photo: ottantotto) Cloud Chamber is the newly formed duo of Gavin Greenaway (piano) and Caroline Dale (cello), internationally renowned performers whose careers span film and concert music. As […]
Hindoyan’s de Falla: routine ballet suites and a couple of interesting rarities
There have been so few new releases which interested me this summer, I haven’t been buying many and, thus, haven’t been reviewing many. So it was with great anticipation that this one appeared on the […]
How does a composer disappear from history? And what does it take to bring her back?
French composer Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955) was the daughter of an industrialist. Her early teachers included a pupil (and relation) of Cesar Franck whilst in 1903, her parents installed a Cavaillé‑Coll organ in the living room! […]
Challenging genius: The Yellow Tie tells the dramatic story of Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache’s rise to fame in a film written & directed by his son
The Yellow Tie – Ben Schnetzer (Sergiu Celibidache) – director: Serge Ioan Celibidache, Oblique Media The Yellow Tie; Ben Schnetzer, John Malkovich, Kate Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Sean Bean, Olivia Popica, Tamzin Merchant, director: Serge Ioan […]
Classical Music News
Last Night of the Proms 2026: Sheridan Smith, Beverley Knight and Ward Thomas join the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and the BBC Singers in a tribute to Dolly Parton
Last Night of the Proms takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 12 September, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds and in two parts on live TV: Part 1 on […]
AVIE maps an American pulse before an autumn of contrasts
NEWS • 7 August 2026 • Source: AVIE Records AVIE Records has opened its late-summer schedule with Rhythm Nation, a new album from New York’s PUBLIQuartet that treats rhythm as a meeting place rather than a boundary. Contemporary commissions […]
LSO Associate Artists reshape the concert format this autumn
NEWS • 4 August 2026 • Source: Baxter PR / London Symphony Orchestra Three autumn projects from London Symphony Orchestra collaborators will bring choral theatre, multidisciplinary performance and orchestral jazz to LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican. Tangram and […]
£200,000 Wolfson grant advances Smith Square restoration
NEWS • 3 August 2026 • Source: Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square has secured a £200,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation for the restoration of its Grade I listed Westminster home. The award supports Doors Open: Transforming Lives […]
