Vache Baroque 2026: The Tempest
Vache Baroque and Out of Chaos at The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. I thoroughly enjoyed Vache Baroque’s UK premiere of Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise last year in the lovely setting of the Chiltern […]
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The groundbreaking collaboration between the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain & learning disability charity Soundabout is now in its fourth year
National Children’s Choir of Great Britain’s Blue Choir & Soundabout in workshop (Photo: Milly March) A collaboration between the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain (NCCGB) and Soundabout is now in its fourth year. The collaboration […]
On the 50th anniversary of Britten’s death, Britten Pears Arts is staging a weekend of events honouring his life, music and legacy.
The Red House, Aldeburgh (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Highlights of this very special weekend (Friday-Sunday, 4th-6th December) honouring the 50th anniversary of Britten’s death include performances of the composer’s Lachrymae, Saint Nicolas and the Oboe […]
An artist without the slightest spark of genius? Your chance to judge as Gothic Opera revives Fromental Halévy’s rarely performed La Dame de Pique
Fromental Halévy (1799-1862) was one of the mainstays of French opera in the 19th century. A pupil of Cherubini, his opera La Juive (1835) would inaugurate the new Paris Opera at the Palais Garnier in […]
Beyond Authenticity: The many voices of Period Performance at the Lammermuir Festival, some thoughts from joint artistic director James Waters
Concerto Copenhagen (Photo: Mathias loevgreen) One of the pleasures of programming the Lammermuir Festival is the opportunity to place different musical personalities alongside one another and invite audiences to listen for both connections and contrasts. […]
Reinventing the semi-opera: Vache Baroque collaborates with Out of Chaos to turn The Tempest into an evening of fun, modern theatre
The Tempest (the masque in Part Two) – Vache Baroque (Photo: The Photography Shed) The Tempest – Shakespeare, Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell & others; Tim Delap, Leah Haile, Hannah Barrie, Tré Medley, Stephanie Hershaw, Isabelle Peters, […]
Here Comes Everybody: composer Alastair White begins his Finnegans Wake project with an overture at London Irish Centre with Ensemble Exposé & Roger Redgate
A drawing of Joyce (with eyepatch) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans Wake Alastair White:Here Comes Everybody: an overture to Finnegans Wake; Ensemble Exposé, […]
Sir Adrian Boult’s Moeran on SOMM
We need to hear more music by Amglo-Irish composer Ernest John (Smeed) Moeran (1894-1950). Arnold Bax referred to Moeran as “the last true Romantic”. His life was a toubled one: he was wounded in the […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "By turns illuminating & compelling: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on terrific form in Britten & Vaughan Williams at the BBC Proms")
By turns illuminating & compelling: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on terrific form in Britten & Vaughan Williams at the BBC Proms
Britten: Violin Concerto – Simone Lamsma, Andrew Manze, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ Chris Christodoulou) Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis, Britten: Violin Concerto, Carmel Smickersgill: A Brick Thrown […]
The Berliner Philharmoniker at the Proms: Elgar & Tchaikovsky
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme. Op. 36, ‘Enigma‘ (1888/9) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (1877/8) Elgar and the Berliner Philarmoniker? Well, there is precedent of the orchestra in English music […]
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