Since 2010, the Cowbridge Festival has been bringing classical music, jazz and folk to the community in the Vale of Glamorgan. The festival, which is now under the direction of the husband and wife team […]
Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade – Natasha PageVache Baroque (Photo: Michael Wheatley) Pergolesi: L’Olimpiade; Aoife Miskelly, Nazan Fikret, Natasha Page, Shafali Jalota, Bechara Moufarrej, Frances Gregory, Robert Forrest, director: Laura Attridge, musical director Jonathan Darbourne; Vache Baroque Summer […]
Verlaine drinking absinthe in the Café François 1er in 1892, photographed by Paul Marsan Dornac (Photo: Musée Carnavalet) Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Eleanor Burke – 555:Verlaine en prison; Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Anna Sideris, Stella Marie Lorenz; […]
Those folks at Alpha do it again: a superb recording of a piece that really deserves better recognition. This time, it is Beethoven under their gaze: an oratorio – Beethoven’s only one – on Christ […]
Alamire & His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts at All Hallows Gospel Oak for recording sessions for Byrd’s Great Service For such a large-scale and important work, William Byrd’s Great Service remains tantalising in many ways […]
Pretty much every recording by Mariss Jansons is impactful: here on Classical Explorer, we have covered him in Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades, Bruckner’s Third Symphony and Sixth Symphony. This multi-composer […]
Cowbridge Music Festival is proud to unveil plans for its 2024 Young Artist Programme, which showcases the remarkable talents of Wales’ emerging musicians. This year’s Young Ensembles will be the Cardiff-based Bute Wind Quintet, and RWCMD graduates Quartet […]
Discovering Imogen – Imogen Holst: Overture Persephone, Suite in F Allegro assai for strings, Suite for Strings, Variations on ‘Loth to Depart’, What Man is He?, Festival Anthem, On Westhall Hill; BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC […]
Introducing Chromatica Orchestra I am told of a new orchestra, and the press release is below. I hope to report on the Batttersea concert (the Barber Violin Concerto is heard far too little os this […]
Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs; The Sixteen; Harry Christophers; COROReviewed 22 July 2024 by Tony Coooper Punctuating Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s centenary, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have just issued 17 première recordings of his […]
