Vienna Opera Festival 2023 Despite its name, the Vienna Opera Festival (Wiener Festpiele) was only founded in 2019 by tenor Jesus Leon with music director Toby Purser. The festival puts on a Summer season (mid-July […]
Thaxted Festival: Purcell The Fairy Queen, Z 629. Oz Clarke (narrator); Eloise Irving, Hannah Fraser Mackenzie, Laura Moretto (sopranos); William Towers (alto); Matthew Pochin (tenor); Robert Davies (bass); Armonico Consert & Baroque Players / Chrisopher […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Age 15 to 18, love music and wondering what to do next? The Benedetti Foundation launches its free Youth Ambassador Programme")
Benedetti Foundation workshop (Photo: Jamie Williamson) The Benedetti Foundation is launching a new free Youth Ambassador Programme for 15 to 18-year-olds across the UK. Open to singers and instrumentalists, it is aimed at anyone of […]
One of the many creative projects by the Continuo Foundation’s grantee ensembles – This is my Body from Figure Ensemble at the Swiss Church – see my review (Photo: Nick Rutter) Since its creation in […]
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 – Hans Christian Aavik, Neeme Järvi, Glasperlenspiel Sinfonietta – Glasperlenspiel Festival at St John’s Church, Tartu Named for Hermann Hesse’s last full-length novel, Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game), the […]
Previous instalments of Robert Levin’s Mozart cycle on Classical Explorer include the Concertos for Multiple Instruments, and the penultimate instalment, Concertos Nos. 6-8. And here we are at the 13th and final release in a […]
Back in 2022, I reported from a concert in Strasbourg’s Palais de la Musique et des Congrès that included the pieces here, plus on that occasion Shoskakovich’s First Violin Concerto with Simone Lamsma (stepping in […]
Puccini Edgar (1905 version, semi-staged, orchestral reduction Toby Burke). Cast; Children from Pimlico Musical Foundation and Tiffin School; Opera Holland Park Chorus; City of London Sinfonia / Naomi Woo. Opera Holland Park, Kensington, London, 02.07.2024 […]
Wild Arts does it again … Mozart Die Zauberflöte (sung in English, translated by Jeremy Sams, abridged). Cast; Orchestra / Orlando Jopling (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, 30.06.2024 Production: Director – James Hurley Designer – Sophie […]
John Adams’ City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with the composer himself calling it ‘an imaginary film score’, while Fearful Symmetries exemplifies his steamroller motor rhythms. The album […]
