Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 – Lukas Vondracek (Photo: New World Symphony) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Lukas Vondracek, New World Symphony, Tianyi Lu, Ziwei Ma; New […]
Peter Wiegold Composer, conductor, collaborator and remarkable artistic creative, Peter Wiegold will be giving an online talk for School of Sound on 14 October 2025. Titled Being in the room. How to make it happen, […]
James Pearson & Lizzie Ball (Photo: Monika C Jakubowska) Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club has announced that from February next year it is reopening the first floor of the club (which closed in 2024) with a […]
,%20Ensemble%20(c)%20Richard%20Hubert%20Smith.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Engaging rom-com energy in Martin Constantine's not quite end of the pier production of Donizetti's The Elixir of Love at English Touring Opera")
Donizetti: The Elixir of Love – Timothy Nelson & chorus – English Touring Opera (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Donizetti: The Elixir of Love; Natasha Page, Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani, Emyr Wyn Jones, Timothy Nelson, Rosie […]
A 1723 engraving by Johann Gottfried Krügner of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig La Grande Audition de Leipzig; Telemann, Kuhnau, Graupner, Bach; Miriam Allan, Maarten Engeltyes, Thomas Hobbs, Edward Grint, Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew; Wigmore HallReviewed […]
Historical releases re so valuable, reminding us of golden get, of how performance practice has changed and yet how musical tooth will always out. Myra Hess’ recorded legacy is legendary, and here she is joined […]
,%20Giorgio%20Vasari,%20Palazzo%20Vecchio,%20Florence.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "One little book sitting in a convent: Laurie Stras introduces the background to Musica Secreta's new recording of music from the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript")
The Siege of Florence (1558) by Giorgio Vasari, Palazzo Vecchio, FlorenceSan Matteo in Arcetri is the reddish building in the bottom left of the picture Musica Secreta is the UK’s only all-female Renaissance ensemble. Their […]
Released just yesterday (September 26, 2025) this is a tremendous introduction to the atmospheric, hauntingly beautiful world of Anna Clyne. It includes two World Premiere recordings. London-born and US-resident, Anna Cluyne studied fist at Edinburgh […]
I look forward to new recordings from JoAnn Falletta and her wonderful Buffalo Philharmonic. If ever there was a musical match made in heaven, it’s this conductor and orchestra. The program itself is very enticing too, […]
The composer & his family – Samuel, Hiawatha Bruce, Gwendoline Avril & Jessie Coleridge-TaylorPhoto courtesy of the Royal College of Music On Sunday 28 September 2025, the Sacconi Quartet will be joined by clarinettist […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
