Deirdre Brenner (Photo: Andrej Grilc) From 1922 to 1996 more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders, these for-profit punitive institutions detained individuals against their will, […]
PROMS: French Night with the Orchestre National de France Randall Goosby (violin); Orchestre National de France / Cristian Măcelaru (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.07.2025 Ravel Rapsodie espagnole (1895, 1907/08) Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in […]
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Verdi: La Traviata – Alison Langer, Ellie Edmonds – Opera Holland Park 2025 (Photo: Ali Wright) Verdi: La Traviata; Alison Langer, Matteo Desole, Michel de Souza, director: Rodula Gaitanou, conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren, City of […]
After a couple of Opera Rara Donizetti song posts (Volume 1; Volume 4), and previous posts on the release of Donizetti’s Three Queens, Il Paria and L’ange de Nisida, plus a live Elixir at ENO […]
The inaugural Cbina-UK Cultural Exchange Programme arrived at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Friday lunchtime, July 18. .The programme brings together musicians from Birmingham (where Artistic Director Di Xiao is a Piano Professor) and its sister cites. […]
There is a nationwide decline in organists and to try and stem this the Royal College of Organists (RCO) is devoting 2025 to its Play the Organ campaign, aiming not just to increase the number of people […]
Gweneth Ann Rand Florence Price: Some o’These Days, Bewilderment, Laura Bowler: Glue, Gravity, call it what you like…, Roxanna Panufnik: If I Don’t Know, Judith Weir: woman.life.song; Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper22 July 2025 Judith […]
The 2024 Hamamatsu Competition took place at ACT CITY Hamamatsu from November 8 to 24; Manami Suzuki, who swept through a sheaf of prizes, made this recording at the same venue in February this year, […]
Gniezno Cathedral and Lake Jelonek, Poland, where Mikołaj Zieleński worked(Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0/WikiMedia) Little is known of Mikołaj Zieleński beyond the fact that he published a major collection of works in 1611. On 14 August […]
Women gardeners (Image courtesy of the Garden Museum) Fiona Davison‘s discovery of letters written by Olive Harrisson, a talented gardener denied a scholarship by the Royal Horticultural Society “on account of being female”, led to […]
