Thibaut Garcia, Continuing the legacy of the brilliant and pioneering British classical guitarist, Julian Bream, the equally brilliant French-born classical guitarist, Thibaut Garcia, joins forces with the award-winning ensemble, Quatuor Arod, to perform the world […]
Janácek: The Makropulos Case – Act 2: Heather Engebretson, Susan Bickley, Jenry Waddington, Sean Panikkar, Ausrine Stundyte – Royal Opera (Photo: Camilla Greenwell/Royal Opera) Leoš Janáček: The Makropulos Case; Ausrine Stundyte, Heather Engebretson, Sean Panikkar, […]
James Blades The percussionist James Blades (1901-1999) had a career that not only spanned much of the century but also moved from circus drummer and accompanist to silent movies at the Wisbech Hippodrome, to the […]
Lawrence Brownlee Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is on of the premier bel canto tenors around at the moment. And he’s rightly busy, his season included a last-minute step-in as Elvino in Bellini’s La sonnambula at the […]
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 […]
