St James Garlickhythe Church On Thursday 24 September at St James Garlickhythe Church in central London, pianist Christopher Glynn will perform and host an evening of live music in support of the charity Music in […]
From Opera Rara: Sunday 4 October, 4pm, The Bridgewater Hall aul Daniel, conductor | Chorus of English National Opera On Sunday 4 October, Opera Rara launches its 56th season with the UK premiere of Offenbach’s Barkouf, a biting political satire in which a […]
The Adagio from Rachmaninoff’s Symphony no. 2 performed by the Holland Park Sinfonia and conductor Jashandeep Reehal. Jashandeep Reehal, Holland Park Sinfonia19 June 2026 (Photo: Marc Tunguz) Jashandeep Reehal is a self-taught musician from Punjab, […]
This rather nice compilation of approachable, broadly “pastoral” English music released by SOMM is a delight. The music is the very definition of the disc’s subtitle, “British Light Classics”. Geoffrey Bush’s Rhapsody for clarinet and […]
As part of Vache Baroque’s 2026 summer opera festival they are performing a version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest based on the 1674 show produced by Thomas Betterton, what has become known as a semi-opera but which in […]
The Lammermuir Festival returns for 13 days of intimate and ambitious music-making in East Lothian from 8 to 20 September. It continues to be a festival shaped by place and by long-standing relationships, and builds […]
New Sussex Opera’s (NSO) 2026 autumn touring production will be Charpentier’s tragédie en musique David et Jonathas. In five acts and a prologue, the work was written in 1688 for the Jesuits at the Collège […]
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Franck Saurel, Liv Redpath – Glyndebourne (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Liv Redpath, Anthony León, Michael Mofidian, Julie Roset, Thomas Cilluffo, Franck Saurel, director: […]
Anyone who thinks Modernist music can’t be beautiful in and of itself should hear this. Hushed, caressing, Ian Wilson’s Voces amissae (Lost Voices) is a contemporary masterpiece. Lost Voices sets poetry by Serbian poet Dragina […]
Four worlds connected by questions of pressure, identity and the forces that shape human behaviour: The Breaking Point brings together four distinct works in a single evening of contemporary music theatre. Created by Royal Academy […]
