Blair Coron Blair Coron is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet and intimate music blends modern classical, storytelling and traditional melodies, with themes of nature, people, time […]
This is a great opportunity to enjoy a terrifically inventive production of Tannhäuser from Tobias Kratzer, staged at the Wagner shrine of Bayreuth in 2019. From the off, it is clear this is no ordinary […]
Cloud Chamber: Gavin Greenaway & Caroline Dale (Photo: ottantotto) Cloud Chamber is the newly formed duo of Gavin Greenaway (piano) and Caroline Dale (cello), internationally renowned performers whose careers span film and concert music. As […]
This is a repost, to prepare the way for my upcoming post on Hans Werner Henze’s opera, Das verratene Meer. Contemporary music can seem forbidding. Back in the late twentieth century, the names of Pierre […]
There have been so few new releases which interested me this summer, I haven’t been buying many and, thus, haven’t been reviewing many. So it was with great anticipation that this one appeared on the […]
French composer Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955) was the daughter of an industrialist. Her early teachers included a pupil (and relation) of Cesar Franck whilst in 1903, her parents installed a Cavaillé‑Coll organ in the living room! […]
The Yellow Tie – Ben Schnetzer (Sergiu Celibidache) – director: Serge Ioan Celibidache, Oblique Media The Yellow Tie; Ben Schnetzer, John Malkovich, Kate Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Sean Bean, Olivia Popica, Tamzin Merchant, director: Serge Ioan […]
Love Without Borders: A Journey in Three Chapters Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo); Jonathan Palmer Lakeland (piano). Milton Court Concert Hall, 30.09.2026 Rachmaninov Morning, Op. 4/2 (1891). I Wait for Thee, Op. 14/1 (1894). Balakirev Romances: No. […]
Cosmopoles: de l’aurore au zenith (from dawn to zenith, from zenith to dusk). Divertimento / Zahia Ziouani (conductor/director); Lyès Salem, actor; Clémence Colin (actor in sign language); Elisa Biagi (author); Christophe Naillet (lighting); Alain Blanchot, […]
Piano Quintet. Manuscript dated January 21, 1919, of passages and queries about the work, consisting of questions from Elgar addressed to Harold Brooke [Jaeger’s successor at Novello], both as printer and as pianist. JNM’s comment: “This […]
