Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival returns later this month with its visionary festival of new opera, with events from 24 August to 29 September 2024, a month of essential listening. The festival opens with […]
Echo Nature – Tangram at LSO St Luke’s, January 2024 Bound/Unbound is a new music theatre piece created by London-based China-born composer Sun Keting and London-based British-Chinese composer Alex Ho. The two are joint directors […]
The Madrigal Reimagined: Claudio Merulo, Johann Nauwach, Claudio Monteverdi, Cipriano de Rore, Cristofano Malvezzi, Giulio Caccini, Emilio de’Cavalieri, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Lorenzo Tracetti; Hannah Ely, Toby Carr, Monteverdi String Band, Oliver Webber; Resonus […]
Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra The centrepiece of Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2024/25 season is Bach Mendelssohn Festival focusing on the music of the two composers with concerts, smaller scale concerts and […]
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John Savournin as Sante in Il segreto di Susanna at Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) July on Planet Hugill: Acis, Galatea, Susanna and two Figaros Our e-newsletter is now out, featuring a lively digest […]
PROM 16: Cassandra Miler, Shostakovich. Lawrence Power (viola); BBC Philharmonic / John Storgårds (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.07.2024 Cassandra Miller I cannot love without trembling (Viola Concerto, 2023) Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C […]
Florence Price 1887-1953) and Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) were contemporaries in 1930s and 1940s Chicago. This is major release in the continued appreciation of their music. Both composers deserve as much airtime as possible. As to […]
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In Harmony Liverpool’s 13 Birthday Concert 2022 (Photo: Mark McNulty) Liverpool Philharmonic has announced a new partnership between the British Double Reed Society and their flagship learning and engagement programme, In Harmony Liverpool. The partnership […]
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and music director Kazuki Yamada will fill Birmingham with music this August, when the orchestra presents a week of free performances in public […]
Hans von Bronsart’s Concerto in F sharp minor did not enjoy the same public acclaim, although it is rousing, intimate and electrifying in turns. The richness of its orchestration is matched by an uncommonly brilliant […]
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