Hidden Mechanisms: Leith, Werner, Miller, Mustonen Manchester Collective. 4pm, Purcell Room, 09.02.2025 Oliver Leith The big house (2021) Héloïse Werner Hidden Mechanisms (2025, London Premiere) Cassandra Miller Leaving (2011) Olli Mustonen Piano Quintet (2014) Manchester Collective has a […]
What started out as an album presenting 4 world premiers commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, turned out to be just 3, plus a regretfully superfluous recording of Kenneth Fuchs’ reorchestration of his Point of […]
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole – Stephane Deneve, Maria Duenas, The Cleveland Orchestra – Arsht Center, Miami Dvorak: Symphony No.8, Bizet: Suite from L’Arlesienne (compiled by Stephane Deneve), Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Maria Duenas, Cleveland Orchestra, Stephane Deneve; Adrienne Arsht […]
The Sounds of Blossom festival of music and nature is returning to Kew Gardens once again in collaboration with the Royal College of Music (RCM). From 15 March to 6 April 2025, visitors to Kew will […]
Wedding Band:A Love/Hate Story in Black and White – Stratford Festival Click here to subscribe or free trial Alice Childress, American novelist, playwright, and actress, born in 1916, is the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays […]
The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra has chosen Marc Albrecht as its next chief conductor. Albrecht, 61, is from Hannover, where his father was GMD for 30 years. Marc lives mostly in Holland. He succeeds the Hong […]
The American soprano has resigned as artistic adviser to the Kennedy Center, following President Trump’s clearout of the board and management. She writes: It has been a privilege to serve as an Artistic Advisor at […]
Deborah Rutter resigned as president last month, but she was not mean to go until the end of the year. However, in the past hour she said goodbye to her staff, leaving her office to […]
Ireland’s Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced today that the country’s Arts Council spent €6.7 million (£5.7m) on an IT system that it soon abandoned. Report here. Why, they’re no better than the […]
The Alastair Macaulay Review this week comes from last night’s world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen at Covent Garden. Festen 2025.ii.12 by Alastair Macaulay How does the same harrowing drama succeed in several different […]
