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. […]
Anyone who reads my blog knows I love the Piatti Quartet. It is interesting though, as is so often the case with many of today’s string quartets, some of their personnel keeps changing (particularly the […]
Mosaic Seasons was founded in 2023 by composer Tatiana Svetlova as a classical music festival based in the South of France and Monaco. The festival envisions envisions a creative dialogue between music, poetry, art, and […]
Double, Double Toil & Trouble : Palisander Reviewed 24 February 2025 An engaging look at music for recorder inspired by the mystical and magical spanning 900 years from Hildegard of Bingen through to the winner of the BBC […]
Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade at Vache Baroque in 2024 (Photo: Michael Wheatley) – [see my review] The 17th-century English tradition of the dramatick opera (often called semi-opera nowadays) remains a fascinating challenge for modern performers with much […]
Boston Lyric Opera (BLO), New England’s largest and most enduring opera company, is in celebratory mood. Founded in 1976, 2026 is its 50th year and 2026/27 is its 50th season. And recent seasons have seen […]
This 2-CD album presents the 4 complete string quartets of Polish composer and conductor Paul Kletzki. They are very substantial works – the first three of which were composed in Berlin between 1923 and 1931, […]
Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno – Jeanine De Bique, Polly Leech, Christopher Lowrey, Nick Pritchard, La Nuova Musica, David Bates – Wigmore Hall (Photo: image capture from Wigmore Hall live stream) Handel: […]
Caroline Taylor (Photo: Alia Thomas) It never fails to amaze me how much good music fails to become common knowledge even when available in good modern editions. Solomon’s Knot’s espousal of the work of 17th […]
George Parris & The Carice Singers at Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy Cheltenham Music Festival has announced the 2026 season of its highly regarded programme for early-career composers, Composer Academy, which will be led this […]
