English Chamber Orchestra Royal Gala Fundraiser 2026 The labels music education or community music often come with baggage that often suggests a lesser quality of musical outcomes. In reaching out beyond the concert space, the […]
Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony is often seen as a “pencil sketch” of a piece (as opposed to watercolours or oil paintings of the Fifth Symphony!). It came after Sibelius had been on the operating table (for […]
Marc Blitzstein is one of those 20th century figures whose name is perhaps better known than his work. The name of his 1937 pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock still resonates, though his opera Regina, an […]
“Lyatoshynsky Chamber Music, Volume 1” bodes well here. We’ve already considered a disc of his symphonies on cpo here (Nos. 4 and 5), and this Third Symphony live with the LPO and Vladimir Jurowski here. […]
John Storgårds & Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra [Photo: Curtis Perry] John Storgårds launches a new chapter when he conducts his inaugural concerts as music director with Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) Orchestra in Ottawa on […]
So it’s Christmas. It’s not, really, not yet – but mince pies are in the shops (and have been for some time 😸) and Christmas discs are piling up. So here’s the first of this […]
Kin: Vaughan Williams, Moeran, Grainger, Britten, Doreen Senior, Canteloube, Bartok, Michael Finissy, Josephine Stephenson, Louise Drewett, Joseph Havlat, Isabella Gellis, Ruth Wall; Lotte Betts Dean, Joseph Havlat; DELPHIANReviewed 19 October 2026 Two young Australians and […]
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Odaline de la Martinez’s London Festival of American Music returns for its 10th edition from 9 to 13 November 2026 at The Warehouse. Celebrating 250 years of diversity, the Festival presents works by over 30 composers […]
Lovemusic On Sunday 1 November at the French Institute in London the French collective, Lovemusic is presenting an event that asks the question ‘how do we listen when sound is inseparable from image, gesture, language […]
Charles-Aimable Battaille as André Roskow in Fromental Halévy’s La Dame de Pique at the Opéra Comique in 1850 Gothic Opera’s production of Fromental Halévy’s La Dame de Pique opens this Thursday (29 October 2026) at […]
