Benedetto Marcello, Six Cantatas
This is an excellent disc, but it is somewhat scuppered by lack of texts. That said, these are delightful works. They ae all love cantatas, and the narrating voice can morph between male and female […]
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Elgar in America #2
This is interesting, as it fills in an ‘interim” Elgar Violin Concerto, and a fine if technically flawed Cockaigne. In between is Toscanini’s take on some Elgar. So first, the Overure Cockaigne (In London Town). […]
Explaining the unexplainable: a seductive & magical album from Lotte Betts-Dean, Dimitris Soukaras, everything you’ve ever lived on Delphian
everything you’ve ever lived: Baden Powell, Ravel, Seiber, de Falla, Richard Rodgers, Burt Bacharach, My Brightest Diamond, Vincente Asencio, Debussy, Sinead O’Connor, Caroline Polachek, Britten, Asik Veysel, Jorge Cardoso, Paurillo Barroso, Armando Soares; Lotte Betts-Dean, […]
The London Opera Company to perform Götterdämmerung this October
Following sold out and critically acclaimed performances of Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre [see my review] and Siegfried [see Tony’s review], the London Opera Company (LOC) returns to Sinfonia Smith Square (formerly St John’s Smith […]
Clarinet & strings: Coleridge-Taylor & a new Jago Thornton piece in the Sacconi Quartet’s Sunday concert at Conway Hall with David Campbell
Jago Thornton Jago Thornton, Shostakovich, Coleridge-Taylor; Sacconi Quartet, David Campbell; Conway Hall Sunday ConcertsReviewed 28 September 2025 Coleridge-Taylor’s early masterwork paired with a new piece for clarinet and strings by Jago Thornton, commissioned as a […]
Stravinsky from Toronto
Part of Stravnisky’s Neo-Classicism was his work with the music of older composers, and we see two instances of that thee: chikovsky for L raise de la fée and 18th-Centuy Naples for Pulcinella. It is […]
The youngest female composer ever commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra, marking her debut with national ensemble: premiere of Amelia Clarkson’s The Rain Keeps Coming at Ulster Hall
Amelia Clarkson Amelia Clarkson is a Northern Irish composer from County Down and she currently works between Belfast and Manchester where she is undertaking a PhD at the Royal Northern College of Music. She is […]
Letter from Florida: Tianyi Lu conducts Bartók & Brahms with Lukas Vondracek & New World Symphony
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 – Lukas Vondracek (Photo: New World Symphony) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Lukas Vondracek, New World Symphony, Tianyi Lu, Ziwei Ma; New […]
Peter Wiegold: Being in the room. How to make it happen.
Peter Wiegold Composer, conductor, collaborator and remarkable artistic creative, Peter Wiegold will be giving an online talk for School of Sound on 14 October 2025. Titled Being in the room. How to make it happen, […]
Upstairs at Ronnie’s to host the first ever regular weekly classical night at Ronnie Scott’s curated by Lizzie Ball & James Pearson
James Pearson & Lizzie Ball (Photo: Monika C Jakubowska) Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club has announced that from February next year it is reopening the first floor of the club (which closed in 2024) with a […]
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