Johannes Worms in the Gemäldegalerie – State Museums of Berlin (Photo: Jana Kiesser) The young German baritone Johannes Worms has been exploring the wider shores of song, presenting programmes that focus on playful explorations of queerness and […]
A new collaboration between Orpheus Sinfonia and the Scherzo Ensemble invites the audience to be part of Mozart’s memorial service, taking part by singing a hymn and surrounded on all sides by the musical and […]
There’s a lot of Dvořák around in my pile of discs suddenly … The LPO’s live series of disc has furnished us with Dvořák 7 coupled with Schuman Second. The LPO delivers a terrific, driven […]
James Larter In July this year, percussionist James Larter joined Frederick Waxman and his ensemble Figure to reimagine Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons for an array of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments alongside the strings. Now […]
Having re-worked Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea earlier this year [see composer Michael Betteridge’s article], Southampton-based OperaUpClose has announced that its next project will be a reimagined version of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Gianni Schicchi (or Where […]
Malcolm Arnold This year the Malcolm Arnold Festival in Northampton celebrates the 20th festival and on 18 and 19 October 2025, there will be performances of all 20 of Arnold’s concerts that feature a solo […]
Giulia Frasi who sang the three soprano roles in the premiere of Handel’s Solomon Handel: Solomon; Helen Charlston, Nardus Williams, Hugo Hymas, Florian Störtz, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Choir of the Enlightenment, John […]
Lauren Lodge Campbell, Patrick Ayrton & ensemble recording Astrophil & Stella for VOCES8 Records The more literary-minded amongst you may recall that Astrophil & Stella is the name of a sonnet sequence by the Elizabethan […]
Thorvaldsdottir, Ligeti, John Luther Adams BBC Symphony Orchestra / Dalia Stasevska (conductor). Barbican Hall, 8.10.2025 Thovaldsdottir ANCORA (2022) Ligeti Atmosphères (1961) John Luther Adams Become Ocean (2013) An extraordinary concert, but perhaps not in the way one might immediately think: to have three woks that rely mainly on texture is certainly out of the (ie, ‘extra’) […]
%202025%20©%20Mark%20Douet.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Engagingly modern: Rossini's Cinderella at ENO is given a modern updating by Julia Burbach with winning performances from Deepa Johnny & Aaron Godfrey-Mayes")
Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella) – Deepa Johnny, Charles Rice – English National Opera (Photo: Mark Douet) Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella); Deepa Johnny, Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Charles Rice, Simon Bailey, David Ireland, Isabelle Peters, Grace Durham, director: […]
