Prach Boondiskulchok Composer Prach Boondiskulchok is perhaps as well known as a pianist, as part of the Linos Piano Trio [see my review of their 2023 disc, Maurice Ravel: In search of lost dance] but that […]
Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci (c. 1773) (Photo: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts) The Trials of Tenducci: Mozart, Johann Christian Bach, Gluck, Thomas Arne, Johann Christian Fischer, Tommaso Giordani; Hugh Cutting, Peter […]
South Cotswold Big Sing Group Artistic director Jack Bazalgette has announced the full programme for the 81st Cheltenham Music Festival which runs from 3 to 11 July 2026. Bazalgette, promises “a chance to bring all […]
Riana Duncan cartoon from Punch (1988) – From Flickr Women and power: Maddalena Casulana, Isabella de’ Medici, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Settimia Caccini, Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Claudia Sessa, Errollyn Wallen; Nardus Williams, Elizabeth Kenny, Mary […]
Some wonderful quiet playing in my home town of Leytonstone last weekly Pitchsoe Music (members of Ensemble 360: Shostakovich, Britten and Beethoven Raz 2) se m on course to include some queer moment.And here it […]
Emily Andrews & Francisco Correa during the recording of From Honey to Ashes Later this month, the Deux Elles label is issuing a two-disc set of music by composer Stephen Goss for flute and guitar […]
Handel/Renioult/Duarte: Titus l’Empereur; Steffen Jespersen, Rachel Redmond, Chiara Hendrick, Hugo Hymas, Lucija Vaarsic, Edward Grint, Francis Gush, Opera Settecento, Leo Duarte; London Handel Festival at St George’s Church, Hanover SquareReviewed 5 March 2026 Handel’s tantalising unfinished, […]
Released on 30 January 2026, Hyperion’s beautiful new recording is inspired by a single year, 1851, concentrating on two major chamber works: 1851 is the year he piano make Érard won an award at the Great Exhibition […]
Owen Wingrave Music: Benjamin Britten Libretto: Myfanwy Piper, adapted from a story by Henry James Cast and Production Staff: Owen Wingave – Redmond Sanders; General Sir Philip – Adrian Thompson; Miss Wingrave – Avery Lafrentz; […]
Dumfries House where The Cumnock Tryst’s 2nd International Summer School for Composers takes place The Cumnock Tryst’s 2nd International Summer School for Composers will run from 22 to 28 August 2026 at Dumfries House. The […]
