Photo Credit: Royal Scottish National Orchestra © John Young A new survey has found that people who followed a career in the sciences, education and finance found it particularly beneficial to have access to […]
Hummel: Quintet, Bertini: Grand Sextuor; Sestetto Classico; MDGReviewed by Andreas Rey (22 September 2025) Two large-scale chamber works from the fringes of the repertoire from composers sitting between Mozart and Beethoven in fresh, idiomatic performances […]
Jakob Lehmann (Photo: Sercan Sevindik) As the Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique makes its first foray into Rossini, we talk to conductor Jakob Lehmann about his passion for music of the period, how we need to […]
Haydn: L’incontro improvviso – Ava Dodd, Stephanie Hershaw, Chelsea Zurflüh, The Mozartists – Opera in 1775 – Cadogan Hall Opera in 1775: Tozzi, Fischietti, Mozart, Myslivecek, J.C. Bach, Haydn, Sacchini; Ava Dodd, Stephanie Hershaw, Chelsea […]
Don’t miss the love:Handel Music Festival from The Brook Street Band this Autumn… Photo: Dan Bridge The award-winning Brook Street Band return to one of their favourite cities, Norwich, for the love:Handel Baroque music festival […]
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin – Timothy Nelson, Galina Averina – Wild Arts (Photo: Allan Titmuss) Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; Timothy Nelson, Galina Averina, Xavier Hetherington, Hannah Sandison, Emily Hodkinson, Sion Goronwy, Rozanna Madlyus, director: Dominic Dromgoole, conductor: […]
Frigyes Hidas, Simon Milton, David Maslanka, Satoshi Yagisawa; Peter Cigleris, Györ Symphonic Band, László Marosi, Ferenc Szabó; SOMMReviewed 9 September 2025 Four contrasting contemporary works for the intriguing combination of clarinet and wind orchestra played […]
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On 4 October, 2025, Central Hall Westminster will host the UK premiere of German composer Sven Helbig’s Requiem A. Performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra, four renowned European choirs, and bass René Pape, with live […]
The Composers Edition website handily explains the musical term Acousmatic as follows: A predominately European term Acousmatic simply refers to musical works which exist solely as audio or ‘fixed’ media, now most commonly delivered […]
Johann Joseph Abert – Ein musikalisches Portrait; ARS ProduktionReviewed by Andreas Rey (17 September 2025) An ethnic German born in the Sudetenland area of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), Johann Joseph Abert studied at the […]
