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Barrie Kosky’s most recent staging of the Ring continues at Covent Garden with Siegfried; the director had previously declared himself unsatisfied with his staging for Staatsoper Hannover in 2009-11. While this Ring still has one vital part to go, we […]

Les Pleurs d’Orphée: L. Couperin, Rossi, Moulinié. Jean Rondeau (harpsichord); Ricercar Consort. Wigmore Hall, 11.03.2026 Louis Couperin Prélude in A minor. Suites: in D (including Rossi’s Fantaisie, ‘Les Pleurs d’Orphée’); in F; in A; in […]

Cambridge Music Festival: Ligeti Piano Studies Danny Driver (piano). Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Cambridge, 10.03.2026 Études pour piano, Books 2 & 3: White on White (Book 3); Galamb Borong; Fém; Der Zaubelehling (all (Bk 2). Musica […]

R. Strauss, Saint-Saens, Brahms Bertrand Chamayou (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 6.03.2026 Richard Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20 (1888/89) Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 105, ‘Egyptian’ […]

Some wonderful quiet playing in my home town of Leytonstone last weekly Pitchsoe Music (members of Ensemble 360: Shostakovich, Britten and Beethoven Raz 2) se m on course to include some queer moment.And here it […]

Released on 30 January 2026, Hyperion’s beautiful new recording is inspired by a single year, 1851, concentrating on two major chamber works: 1851 is the year he piano make Érard won an award at the Great Exhibition […]

Owen Wingrave Music: Benjamin Britten Libretto: Myfanwy Piper, adapted from a story by Henry James Cast and Production Staff: Owen Wingave – Redmond Sanders; General Sir Philip – Adrian Thompson; Miss Wingrave – Avery Lafrentz; […]

Byrd Bow thine eare. Jeffreys How wretched is the state. Felice pastorella. A music strange. Lawes Royal Consort Sett No. 4 – Pavan. Jeffreys O quam jucundum. Whisper it easily. The Lord is thy adversity. […]