Classical Music Reviews
From A Queer Holiday Extravaganza to Messiah to Corelli & Locatelli on tour: Christmas with Royal Northern Sinfonia
A Christmas Gaiety 2022: Peaches Christmas and Edwin Outwater The Royal Northern Sinfonia is certainly going all out for Christmas in the season at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music as well as on tour. […]
Faith, fragility, & the passing of time: new work by Arthur Keegan alongside Messiaen for Hebrides Ensemble’s Scottish tour
Arthur Keegan (Photo: Alejandro S Garrido) The Hebrides Ensemble has announced a new tour in February 2026. Music for Time will tour to Dumfries House, Cumnock (1 February) as part of The Cumnock Tryst’s year […]
A real radio opera: Claire Booth as a pianist labouring under the absurdity of life in Stalin’s Russia in Joe Cutler’s Sonata for Broken Fingers
Joe Cutler: Sonata for Broken Fingers; Claire Booth, Stephen Richardson, Christopher Lemmings, James Cleverton, Lucy Schaufer, BCMG, Sian Edwards, BRCReviewed 17 November 2025 Inspired by a probably untrue story, Joe Cutler and Max Hoehn’s opera […]
National Centre for Early Music & BBC Radio 3 announce the 2026 Young Composers Award writing for The Gonzaga Band
The Gonzaga Band Each year the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2026 is presented by the National Centre for Early Music in association with BBC Radio 3 and for the 2026 instalment […]
Classical Music News
Just in: Berlin Philharmonic blasts the Belgians
Statement by the board of the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation on the withdrawal of the invitation from the Flanders Festival Ghent to Lahav Shani, Lisa Batiashvili and the Munich Philharmonic “It was with great dismay and incomprehension […]
Breaking: Belgian PM slams ban on Israeli conductor as ‘reckless and irresponsible’
Prime Minister Bart De Wever has taken the unusual step of speaking out against an arts festival for making a political decision to ban the Israeli conductor Lahav Shani with the Munich Philharmonic orchestra. The […]
At Covent Garden, opinions split over Anna Netrebko
The Russian soprano’s reapparance last night – in a cautious new production of Tosca – was greeted by a few dozen pro-Ukraine demonstrators outside the house. This being England, they conducted polite conversations with those […]
At BBC Proms, an Israeli conductor calls for action against Israel
After a concert of Gabrieli, Stravinsky and Brahms’ second symphony, the conductor Ilan Volkov read out a short personal message to the audience. Thank you all for sharing this amazing music together. It’s a real […]
