The London Mozart Players (Photo: Kaupo Kickkas) On Friday 21 November 2025, violinist Fenella Humphreys, the London Mozart Players and conductor Jonathan Bloxham will give the premiere of the Violin Concerto by Stephen McNeff at […]
Brahms, Mozart Axelle Fanyo (soprano); Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo); Werner Güra (tenor);Guilhem Worms (bass); Chœur Orféon Donostiara; Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Jérémie Rhorer, conductor. Philharmonie, Paris, 4.11.2025 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 (1869) Mozart Requiem, K 626 (1791, completed Süssmayr) Jérémie Rhorer […]
Lyonnaise pianist Jodylne Gallavadin’s second album for Scala Music is a noctunal odyssey. recorded in September 2024 in Scala’s studio in Provnce and produced by Cécile Lenoir. Gallavadin’s own notes include a poem (in Freach […]
Edvard Grieg: Songs, Moods and Lyric Pieces; Alexander Ullman; Rubicon Classics Reviewed by Tony Cooper (31 October 2025) The prize of Ullman’s album, though, is his transcription of Peer Gynt Suite, No.1, drawing out the colour […]
Temple Church Ian Venables: Out of the Shadows, Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves, On Wenlock Edge, Love Bade me Welcome, Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows, Ian Venables: Portraits of Mind; Gwilym Bowen, Gareth […]
This was the conclusion of Edward Gardner’s Schubert cycle (we covered volume 3 here, . The great composer’s earlier symphonies produced daily regularly – round one a yea between 1813 and 1818. You might remember […]
Soprano, composer and alumna Monica McGhee will unveil her debut song cycle, The Pebbles We Keep, on Sunday 23 November at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in the Stevenson Hall. McGhee has taken poems penned […]
Bach: Mass in B Minor – Peter Whelan, Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Bach: Mass in B minor; Rachel Redmond, Katie Bray, Hugh Cutting, Anthony Gregory, Matthew Brook, Irish Baroque Orchestra […]
I keep remembering how the Marmen Quartet blew me away playing Ligeti and Bartok on their debut recording for BIS earlier this year. It’s one of those momentous recordings which comes so rarely that it […]
Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims – Wexford Festival Opera (Photo: Pádraig Grant) Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims; Wexford Factory, director Rosetta Cucchi, conductor Manuel Hartinger, Wexford Festival Opera; National Opera HouseReviewed 31 October 2025 A […]
