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 […]
Ethan Loch at the BBC Young Musician 2022 Final (Photo: BBC) For their next performance in Manchester, the Manchester Camerata is changing their base of operations and giving a concert in the Albert Hall on […]
Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) in 1842 Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, Fanny Mendelssohn; Engegård Quartet; Conway HallReviewed 21 April 2024 Playing of extraordinary vividness and presence by the Norwegian ensemble in a programme moving from Mozart and […]
The Hub at St Mary’s – Brodsky Quartet at Lichfield Festival, July 2023 (Photo: Tyler Whiting) The Lichfield Festival returns for ten days of classical, folk, world, jazz, cabaret and popular music, theatre, dance and the […]
Joana Carneiro & Gavan Ring Thomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, […]
Mozart: Don Giovanni – Hurn Court Opera (Photo: Patrick Frost, BlackStar Pictures) Mozart: Don Giovanni: Sam Young, Samuel Lom, Lizzie Rydeer, Daniel Gray Bell, Hanna O’Brien, Harrison Chéné-Gration, Tilly Goodwin, William Stevens, dir: Joy Robinson, […]
Great name for a string quartet! It certainly got my attention (as did the repertoire) and enticed me to buy their debut recording which appears on a label new to me, Solo Musica, produced by […]
I’m more than a fan. I think I’m even more than an aficionado. John Williams is an inspiration; a musical hero, really. And of course when I saw this production, I had to have it. […]
