Photo: Antonio Beato, 19th centuryBrooklyn Museum Greek Songs: Schubert, Loewe, Wolf, Conradin Kreutzer, Ludwig Berger, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Lennox Berkeley, Ravel: Robin Tritschler, Jonathan Ware; Wigmore HallReviewed 8 January 2025 Composers different ideas of Greece from […]
Pierre Boulez – Éclat George Benjamin – Interludes and Aria from ‘Lessons in Love and Violence’ (World Premiere) Brahms – Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Boulez 100, Rattle 70: both nice and […]
Handel: Messiah – Manchester Baroque at Manchester Cathedral in December 2024 (Photo: Tom Bowles) Continuo Foundation is inviting applications for funding early music concerts, tours and other projects taking place between May and October 2025, […]
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There is an open call for composers and performers for a residency programme for 2025. The precept.concept.percept residency focuses on a collaborative creative process where performers and composers work closely together to prepare for a performance at […]
I was privileged to hear Fuget rehearse Lully in the Versalles Chapel. It really is a phenomenal experience, and all credit for the label engineers here for capturing the famous acoustic so well for this […]
Here we have another recording of the wonderful Meccore String Quartet, featuring playing of consummate refinement. I am not familiar with these works, and if the music isn’t the most engrossing I’ve heard from this […]
Can one person make a difference? Horrified by the climate crisis, teenager Lola decides that she must fight for the future. Composer Jonathan Dove and writer April De Angelis’ new opera looks at the state […]
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The Cast of ENO’s The Pirates of Penzance 2024 © Craig Fuller In case you missed it online, our December newsletter has arrived, a handy digest of the month’s reviews. December was a month when […]
It is great to see attention falling on Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77). She was a pupil of Egon Wellesz and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ever-enterprising Lyrita label released a fabulous compact disc of […]
Mozart’s Idomeneo is regarded as his first mature opera, written for Munich in 1781. The subject may not have been Mozart’s choice but it represents the composers continuing engagement with Italian opera seria, a style that […]
