Halévy: La Dame de Pique – Gothic Opera at Battersea Arts Centre [Photo: Craig Fuller] Fromental Halévy: La Dame de Pique; Grace O’Malley, James Hutchings, Sam Utley, Charlie Epps, Alice Usher, director: Jonny Danciger, conductor: […]
London Piano Festival (1): Opening Night, Divisions & Visions Donald McLeod in conversation with George Benjamin; Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva (pianos). King’s Place, 29.10.2026 Benjamin Two or Four (2010). Divisions (2024/5). Messiaen Visions de l’Amen […]
Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace The Music More Full Than It Was: Christopher Gibbons, Matthew Locke, Pelham Humfrey, John Blow, Purcell, Handel, Maurice Greene; Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen; Wigmore HallReviewed 30 October 2026 Exploring sacred […]
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 […]
