The animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British network TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which means that it is now available on BBC iPlayer until next year! Adapted […]
Zoë Beyers leads Britten Sinfonia at Westminster Abbey (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten Sinfonia has announced that violinist Zoë Beyers is to become the orchestra’s new Leader. She will replace Jacqueline Shave and Thomas Gould, who […]
Cyrill Ibrahim From September 2025, pianist Cyrill Ibrahim will be the new artist in residence at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. A firm believer in bringing classical music into the mainstream, Ibrahim will support World Heart Beat’s […]
Barbara Hepworth: Sphere with Inner Form, 1963, at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands 50 years after her death, a new violin concerto will be celebrating the life and legacy of sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Commissioned […]
Evening concert at Glasgow Cathedral Festival Glasgow Cathedral Festival returns from 18–21 September 2025, for its ninth edition bringing life to Glasgow’s medieval cathedral with site-specific live music, film, theatre, art, talks and tours, and this […]
A detail of A C Pugin’s drawing of the Entrance Hall, Brighton Pavilion c1821 English piano maker Thomas Tomkison (c1764-1853) made a succession of instruments for the Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and then […]
Joubert: Jane Eyre – Laura Mekhail (Jane) – Green Opera at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre – (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) John Joubert: Jane Eyre; Laura Mekhail, Hector Bloggs, Lawrence Thackeray, Alexander Semple, director Eleanor Burke, conductor […]
Matilda Lloyd (Photo: Geoffroy Schied) When I met up for coffee with Matilda Lloyd last month, she was laden down with five trumpets, ranging from a piccolo trumpet to a flugelhorn, all of which come […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (2): Les Éléments Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml (shawm / director). 9 pm, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025 Air Anonymous O che […]
Tama Matheson as Beethoven in his play, Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven Tama Matheson: Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven; Tama Matheson, Jayson Gillham, Quartet Concrète, English Chamber Choir; Opera Holland ParkReviewed 6 August […]
