I have enjoyed many CDs over the years from the Belgian chamber ensemble, Oxalys. On the Fuga Libera label, the Mozart and Ries Flute Quartets are simply glorious. And more recently on Passacaille, entire albums of […]
Opening in a blaze of raw Handelian energy, this is a disc for the ages. Three psalms: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus, all magnificently shaped by Justin Doyle with a simply superb line-up of […]
Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer Estates Tour 2023 One of Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s central tenets is a belief that that orchestral music should be at the centre of society, reaching people in their own community, and […]
BBC and Young Sounds UK Exchange programme in 2022 (Photo: BBC) The five BBC orchestras – the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – […]
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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire – Claire Booth, the Nash Ensemble – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Marcus Roth, (c) Britten Pears Arts) Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Beethoven, Julian Anderson, Judith Weir, Mozart; Claire Booth, The Nash Ensemble, Martyn Brabbins; […]
Thaxted Festival: Liszt, George Hall, Verdi, Puccini Nadine Benjamin (soprano); Jan Karl Rautio (piano). Thaxed Parish Church, 22.06.2024 Liszt Enfant, j’étais roi, S 283. Oh, quand je dors.S 282. Hall Settings of d’Annunzio: L’ora e tarda; O […]
Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – Adam Temple-Smith, Michael Mofidian – The Grange Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress; Adam Temple-Smith, Alexandra Oomens, Michael Mofidian, Rosie Aldridge, director: Antony McDonald, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Tom […]
Strauss’s Die Fledermaus in rehearsal with Olivia Singleton (Adele), Ashley Mercer (Frank), Meliza Metzger (Ida) – St Paul’s Opera On 4 July 2024, my local opera company St Paul’s Opera debuts their 2024 main production, […]
I recently wrote an organ chorale prelude for William Whitehead’s Orgelbüchlein Project which is completing Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, a set of chorale preludes for the church’s year which Bach planned out and started but never finished. […]
Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea – Vanessa Waldhart, Kitty Whately, Sam Furness – The Grange Festival (Photo: Craig Fuller) Monteverdi: L’;incoronazio di Poppea; Kitty Whately, Sam Furness, Christopher Lowrey, Anna Bonitatibus, Jonathan Lemalu, directed: Walter Sutcliffe, […]
