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Dario Salvi and the Janáček Philharmonic return for volume 3 in their series of Overtures and Stage Music: Volume One was covered here, while we covered yet another Naxos release, the Piano Trios with the […]

The Quatuor Elmire was part of the String Quartet finals at Geneva a few years back (see here); currently in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and the Chapelle Musicale, Reine Elisabeth (the present release was […]

Mozart Yunchan Lim (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 15.10.2026 Piano Sonatas: C, K 279 (1775); D, K 284 (1774-5).  Fantasia in D minor, K 397 (c. 1782) Piano Sonatas: F, K 332 (1781-3); A minor, K […]

What a treasure trove this is! Joseph Szigeti at the height of his powers … The first track might well sound familiar to pianists: it’s the finale from the Piano Sonata in D, D 850 […]

Max Richter joins a roll call of extraordinary composers including  Anoushka Shankar, Gavin Bryars, Matthew Herbert and Talvin Singh  News revealed days before Richter releases brand-new album, While The Flood Rages  The Ivors Academy announced today [13 October] […]

Spring Snow: A Kabuki Winterreise Fleur Barron (mezzo); Suleiman Suleiman (dancer); Jong Sun Woo (piano); Hibiki Ichikawa (shamisen/shinobue); Lifeng Liao (lighting designer); Misa Koide, Sophie Daneman (movement directors). Wigmore Hall, 11.10.2026 Kabuki Scene 1: Preserve; […]

Önaç Atlantic Requiem (2026, World premiere). Brittany Reese (soprano); J’Nai Bridges (mezzo); Orson Van Gay II (tenor); BBC Singers; London Symphony Orchestra / Malcolm J. Merriweather (conductor). Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, 4pm, 11.10.2026 All […]

The London venue Stone Nest seems to be a hub for innovation: in March 2024, I attended a performance of Our Mother, starring Emma Kirkby and with the same ensemble as here, FIGURE. That was […]

The Brahms Horn Trio is probably the most famous of this genre. Martin Owen is a fin ehornist, and Fancesca Dego needs on introduction, and neither does Martin Owen. Alessandro Taverna is new o me, […]

This is the second post on music by Kalevi Aho (born 1949): we reported on the Stenhammar Quartet’s recording of String Quartets Nos. 1-3 here. There should be more, and will doubtless be. Aho is […]