Everyday Non-sense; works by Shiomi, Schmit, Higgins, Mozart, Kurtág, Cage, PatKop, Françaix and Ligei Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/voice/vacuum cleaner); members of Aurora Orchestra. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 24.04.2024 The force of […]
So, the BBC Proms are on us again. The 2024 festival runs from 19 July to 14 September 2024 with 73 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and 17 around the UK, with short seasons […]
In 1996, the Pride festival took place on Clapham Common and attracted 250,000 to party on the Common. In celebration of this, Omnibus Theatre, Clapham created its 96 Festival, a celebration of queerness and theatre. […]
The Stratford-upon-Avon based ensemble Orchestra of the Swan is one of the most inventive groups around in the UK today – this extends from their programming to their use of multimedia to the subjects they […]
Bach – Prelude in E minor, BWV 955a (transcribed Siloti) Brett Dean – Hommage à Bach (2010): Prélude; Hommage à Kurtág (2011); Music for Drakenstein – Two Etudes (2018, world première); Hommage à Janáček (2009); Hommage à Lutosławski (2017); Hommage à Bach (2010): Chorale; Faustian Pact (Hommage à Liszt) (2023, UK premiere) Brahms – Klavierstücke, […]
Schütz: A German in Venice – Schütz, Monteverdi, Rossi, Grandi, Cavalli, Sances; David de Winter, The Brook Street Band, FHR;Reviewed 24 April 2024 A wonderfully engaging and life-affirming disc which mixed Schütz’s music with pieces […]
Summer at Snape, Britten Pears Arts’ series of events at Snape returns for 2024 with 50 events from 26 July to 31 August. Visiting orchestras include John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London in Britten […]
The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of today’s most exciting chamber-musicians and soloists to explore the musical ties between […]
The Paradox Orchestra (Photo: Elizabeth Brown) The Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra, whose founder Michael Sluman I chatted to recently [see my interview ‘No boundaries or rules‘], is presenting a series of concerts for charitable causes across […]
Handel’s Arianna: An unforgettable close to the London Handel Festival’s ‘Spring Awakenings’ festival This is not the London Handel Festival’s first stab at Handel’s unjustly neglected opera, Arianna in Creta; it was previously staged […]
