This summer, the Between Mountains Festival makes its debut on 19 July at Holdenweid in Hölstein, Switzerland. More than just another music festival, Between Mountains seeks to redefine how classical music is presented and experienced […]
Scriabin, Bach, Beethoven Nicolas Namoradze (piano). Wigmore Hall, 23.06.2025 Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 (1912/13) Bach Prelude & Fugue in E, BWV 878 (WTC II) Scriabin Fugue in E minor, WoO 20 (1892) Bach […]
Love and Loss: Music for Countertenor & Lute Songs by Dowland, Danyel, Rosseter, Campion, Purcell, Blow and Cynthia Harper. Alexander Chance (countertenor); Toby Carr (lute). Thaxted Parish Church, 22.06.2025 (9pm) A stroll through Elizabethan lute […]
Britten: Our Hunting Fathers – Allan Clayton, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Daniel Kidane: Awake, Helen Grime: Violin Concerto, Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Vier letzel Lieder; Anu Komsi, Leila […]
%20in%20Trial%20by%20Jury.%20Credit%20Mihaela%20Bodlovic..jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Brilliant reinvention & razor sharp take-down: Scottish Opera's double-bill pairs Gilbert & Sullivan with Toby Hession's brand new comedy at Opera Holland Park")
Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury – Jamie MacDougall – Scottish Opera (Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic) Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury, Toby Hession & Emma Jenkins: A Matter of Misconduct; Richard Suart, Jamie MacDougall, Kira […]
Photo from Art UK Conway Hall Sunday Concerts is inviting young composers to submit a work for piano duet to The Clements Prize 2025. Up to eight submissions will be selected to be performed by […]
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Edward Gardner & Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Daniel Kidane: Sirens, Mark-Anthony Turnage: Refugee, Nielsen: Symphony No.4; Allan Clayton, Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, cond. Edward […]
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus – The Grange Festival (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus; Sylvia Schwartz, Andrew Hamilton, Ben McAteer, Ellie Laugharne, Claudia Huckle, Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, Darren Jeffery, Myra DuBois, director: Paul […]
Verdi: La Traviata – Samantha Clarke – The Grange Festival (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Verdi: La traviata; Samantha Clarke, Nico Darmanin, Dario Solari, Annie Reilly, director: Maxine Braham, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Richard Farnes; The […]
It’s been a while: well, over 40 years, since I heard Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, in an amdram production just outside of Manchester in which I was playing French horn. Has absence made the […]
