Beethoven for 3, #4
We’re back, after an unexpected break due to illness. Apologies for the disruption – initially posts may or may not be every day, but will certainly work back to the Wednesday through Sunday format shortly. […]
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Telegraph Quartet’s 2nd recording for Azica
I like the Azica label, and I love discovering new string quartets, so this title instantly caught my eye – especially as they play Bacewicz’s very popular 4th Quartet. Everyone is playing it lately, at […]
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A declaration of love to a composer who, in many ways, transformed my path as a “classical” musician: pianist Vanessa Wagner on Philip Glass’ Etudes
Vanessa Wagner has been one of France’s most distinctive pianists for more than twenty years, equally at home in the classical repertoire and in contemporary music. Her latest project is the complete recording of Philip […]
Iphigenia in Blackheath: community opera dares to go where few UK companies do with a compelling account of Gluck’s French tragedy
Gluck: Iphigenia in Tauris; Francesca Chiejina, Danny Shelvey, Michael Lafferty, Dan D’Souza, director: Laura Attridge, Blackheath Halls Opera, conductor: Chris Stark; Blackheath HallsReviewed 23 September 2025 A sense of classicism and community combine with compelling […]
Cellist Natalie Clein joins Sinfonia Smith Square for a concert celebrating 40 years of The Stradivari Trust facilitating musicians acquiring instruments of the highest calibre
Natalie Clein & her cello whose acquisition was facilitated by The Stradivari Trust(Photo: Michael Staab) The Stradivari Trust is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Created in 1985 by Cambridge entrepreneur and philanthropist Nigel Brown, the trust’s aim […]
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New music, new appointments, Studio Ghibli & Queen: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s London season opens this week
Emilia Hoving (Photo: Laura Oja) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s London season opens this week. They will be performing Mozart and Mendelsohn at the Windsor Festival tonight with conductor Alexander Shelley, music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra […]
Elgar, Sibelius & beyond: Kenneth Woods & English Symphony Orchestra’s Sibelius on ESO Digital
Kenneth Woods & the English Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Michael Whitefoot) Based in Elgar’s home-town of Malvern, the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO), artistic director Kenneth Woods, is inevitably associated with the music of Elgar and their […]
New research shows that access to live music making can be the key to success in any career path: new survey from Making Music & Association of British Orchestras
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 […]
A very fresh, a summer album: Hummel & Bertini from Sestetto Classico on MDG
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 […]
There are no dividing lines: conductor Jakob Lehmann on bringing historically informed Rossini to Cadogan Hall with the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique
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 […]
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