And it just keeps getting worse.
Several months ago, I wrote a piece on this blog complaining about the price of CDs these days. So how are things going these days? Well, things just seem to keep getting worse. In fact, […]
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The first Thai composer to be commissioned to write for a major European opera house: Prach Boondiskulchok’s new operas in Amsterdam and Brussels
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 […]
Storytelling, musicality & musicology: Hugh Cutting, Peter Whelan & Irish Baroque Orchestra in The Trials of Tenducci at Wigmore Hall
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 […]
New music, rare Mahler, the Big Sing, Eric Coates & young musicians: Cheltenham Music Festival 2026
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 […]
From Sappho to Strozzi to Errollyn Wallen: Nardus Williams, Elizabeth Kenny & Mary Beard’s Women and Power at Wigmore Hall
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 […]
Primose Quartet in Beethoven & Mozart
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 […]
Fun & fresh: flute/voice & guitar duo, Emily Andrews & Francisco Correa talk improvisation & collaboration on their new disc of Stephen Goss’s music
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 […]
Continuing where Handel left off: Opera Settecento’s completion of Handel’s Titus L’Empereur at London Handel Festival was a terrific showcase for some of the composer’s lesser-known arias
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, […]
1851: Schumann & Moscheles Sonatas from Steven Isserlis & Connie Shih
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 […]
The Britten/Piper outlier: Owen Wingrave at Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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; […]
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