GBSR Duo, made up of two of the UK’s finest young contemporary chamber instrumentalists, George Barton, percussion and Siwan Rhys, piano, has become known for its boundary-crossing performances, combining exceptional interpretations of the existing piano-percussion repertoire […]
Elgar wrote a remarkable amount of choral music ranging from the small-scale to the huge oratorios. Most choral singers will be familiar with his remarkable unaccompanied choral gems, Owls and There is Sweet Music, but […]
The London Eye (Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0) On Saturday 25 January, BBC Radio 3 launched 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century, its sequence of 25 commissions celebrating and commemorating some of […]
LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez Debussy, Neuwirth, Arcaro, Agar, Boulez London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Barbican Hall, 26.01.2025 Debussy Trois Images pour Ochestre (interspersed) Neuwirth Tombeau II Hommage à Pierre Boulez (World premiere, LSO […]
Katherine Potter: Eight Nocturnes; Katherine Potter, Adam Pinto; ABC ClassicReviewed 27 January 2025 Personal reflection, late night jazz and minimalism along with Potter’s own warmly rhapsodic viola playing all contribute to these eight mellow new […]
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If you have visited the London Transport Museum at all, recently, then it is likely to have been for its iconic transport collection. After all, few of us can resist an historic bus or a […]
Reynaldo Hahn in 1906 Ravel, Fauré, Lili Boulanger, Saint-Saens, Hahn: Piano Quartet; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective; Wigmore HallReviewed 26 January 2025 Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Quartet undoubtedly looks back, so this programme took that as its cue […]
Here we have an enticing new recording of the music of Edward MacDowell on Chandos. And who better to bring it to life like no one else can than John Wilson. Well, the first red […]
Respighi, Tubin, Falla, Ravel Will Dearden (double-bass); RCM Symphony Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal College of Music, London, 23.01.2025 Respighi Fontane di Roma, P. 106 (1916) Tubin Double-Bass Concerto (1948) Falla El sombrero de […]
This is a disc I’ve been wanting to review but I’m having a hard time thinking of how to describe it. These 3 String Quartets (#2-4) by English composer Joseph Phibbs, played by the fantastic Piatti Quartet, […]
