The Samling Institute’s Lost and Found at the Glasshouse, Gateshead on 12 July 2024, will provide an opportunity to hear the current crop of Samling Academy Singers in action, performing music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, […]
The Dunedin Consort has announced its 2024/25 season with concerts across Scotland, a continuation of its residency at Wigmore Hall as well as other London appearances. Contemporary music continues play an interesting role in the […]
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Odaline de la Martinez Composer/conductor Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn, and is doing so in a typically dynamic fashion with a return of her London Festival of American Music that […]
One wonders why. Why record more Mozart symphonies? What’s special about these that merits a recording of them? Seriously, BIS – a clarinet player who has decided he wants to be a conductor and you’re […]
Euripedes’ classic tragedy Medea has inspired writers and artists across the centuries as well as playwrights directly reinterpreting Euripedes’ original (hands up those who have heard a performance of the original Ancient Greek!). Now Thee Black Swan, […]
One of Cambrian Harps’ Discover the Harp sessions Cambrian Harps, a company from the heart of Wales specialising in making harps and encouraging harp playing, is on a mission to show the country and the […]
Robin Haigh: LUCK – Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia, Jessica Cottis – Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings, 2024 (Photo: Angus Cooke) Purcell: Chaconny in G minor, Handel: Organ Concerto in D minor, Op.7, No.4, Robin Haigh: […]
Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914), a favourite student of Liszt, was admired by Wagner: that’s quite a CV. Here we have two works: the large-scale Piano Concerto in G minoring the Sinfonia festiva. Sgambati is probably best […]
We met Mishka Rushdie Momen at the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival via her recital Romantic Piano. Here on her recording of variation sets on SOMM, she confirms her clear talent. The booklet notes are some […]
Songs for Peter Pears: Berkeley, Britten, Arthur Oldham, Richard Rodney Bennett, Geoffrey Bush; Robin Tritschler, Malcolm Martineau, Sean Shibe, Philip Higham; Signum ClassicsReviewed 11 June 2024 Exploring the wide variety of music written for and […]
