Filippo Gorini at Wigmore Hall
Beat Furrer Studie IV (2025, UK premiere) Schumann Davidbündertänze, Op. 6 (1837) Stefano Gervasoni Sonata for Piano (2024, UK premiere) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110 (1821/2) Good to see Filippo […]
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Two Razumovsky Quartets on BIS
This is the fourth instalment of he Chiaroscuro Quartet’s ongoing complete recording of Beethoven’s string quartets. This is our eighth post of his group’s activities: previous Beethoven posts include quartets from Op. 18 and Opp. […]
Beautifully wrought & intensely serious: Kitty Whately & Julius Drake explore the songs of Madeleine Dring
Through the Centuries: Songs by Madeleine Dring; Kitty Whately, Julius Drake; ChandosReviewed 15 April 2026 If you thought Madeleine Dring’s songs were confined to camp nightclubs then think again. Here Kitty Whately and Julius Drake […]
NYO Collide: film, ballet and opera
Joe Hisaishi Howl’s Moving Castle: Merry-go-Round + Cave of Mind Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Prelude und Verklärung Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: excerpts The National Youth Orchestra’s Festival Hall concert (following on from the Bridgewater Hall […]
%20Show%20artwork%20-%20Windrush%20Suite%20&%20Echo%20in%20the%20Bones.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "An evening of connection, reflection, & celebration: Renell Shaw's The Windrush Suite at Kings Place")
An evening of connection, reflection, & celebration: Renell Shaw’s The Windrush Suite at Kings Place
As part of Kings Place’s Memory Unwrapped season composer, songwriter and producer Renell Shaw has a year-long artist residency. Shaw’s work bridges theatre, contemporary composition and artist led music, and his credits include music for […]
Music at the Heart of the community: Sinfonia Cymru take us from Latin America and France to concerts in local venues across Wales
One of Sinfonia Cymru’s Cymuned Sessions Sinfonia Cymru is a collective of dynamic professional musicians all aged under 30 committed to taking music across the length and breadth of Wales. Whilst the do perform regularly […]
Same orchestra; same hall; same engineer; two very different sounds. Why?
That’s the question. Well…let me be more specific. Why can’t Chandos sound engineer, Ralph Couzens, achieve consistency with the recorded sound of the Sinfonia of London? Why is that so difficult? They record in the […]
A new festival in Glasgow and Edinburgh recalls a forgotten 19th century Scottish musical pioneer, Helen Hopekirk
Helen Hopekirk – National Galleries of Scotland collection (Photo: National Galleries of Scotland) A new festival is hoping to bring back the name of Helen Hopekirk. Born in Peebles in 1856, she was one of […]
-5.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley’s iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall
Jasdeep Singh Degun, Gurdain Rayatt, Fantasia Orchestra, Tom Fetherstonhaugh – Smith Square Hall (Photo: Pablo Strong) Terry Riley: In C, Jasdeep Singh Degun, Philip Glass, Rameau; Jasdeep Singh Degun, Gurdain Rayatt, Fantasia Orchestra, Tom Fetherstonhaugh; […]
Gregory Spears opera Fellow Travelers celebrates its 10th anniversary with a nationwide USA tour collaborating with the Lavender Names Project
Gregory Spears: Fellow Travelers – Andy Acosta, Joseph Lattanzi – Seattle Opera (Photo: Sunny Martini) They served their country. Their country fired them. And it’s still happening Gregory Spears opera Fellow Travelers, with a libretto […]
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