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Saturday, 23 January 2021

Obsessed with the symphonic form: composer David Matthews on the symphony and the recent recording of his eighth on Signum Classics with Jac van Steen and the BBC Philharmonic

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David Matthews (Photo Clive Barda) In the programme notes for composer David Matthews ' latest disc, he says that he has been 'obses...
Friday, 22 January 2021

Chemin des Dames: premiere recording of New Zealand composer Gareth Farr's cello concerto, written in memory of his great-uncles killed in the First World War

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Elgar Cello Concerto , Gareth Farr Cello Concerto: Chemin des Dames ; Sébastien Hurtaud, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northe...

Sebastian: episode 11

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Sebastian is Peter Fielding's on-going animation series about the life of Johann Sebastian Bach, and it has just reached episode 11 in...

Grange Park Opera and the Romanoff Foundation collaborate on making Ivan the Terrible more accessible

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Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan the Terrible in Rimsky Korsakov's opera Despite the limitations caused by lockdown,  Grange Park Opera (GPO) wa...
Thursday, 21 January 2021

Pulse of Minimalism: in one of the last live concerts before lockdown, Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas conducts concert of his own music and other contemporary composers

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On 17 October 2020, the Lithuanian composer and conductor Gediminas Gelgotas conducted musicians from his New Ideas Chamber Orchestra and ...

Influence at Court: the sacred music of Pelham Humfrey explored in a new disc from the choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal on Delphian

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Pelham Humfrey Sacred Choral Music ; Alexander Chance, Nicholas Mulroy, Nick Pritchard, Ashley Riches, the choir of Her Majesty's Ch...
Wednesday, 20 January 2021

InsideOut Musician: Helping to mitigate the debilitating effects of isolation, and loss of motivation, that many musicians continue to face

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The InsideOut Musician team A new online community, InsideOut Musician, created by musicians, for musicians arose out of violist Sophie Rens...

A snapshot of the time: Sound and Music (Vol. 1)

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Sound and Music (vol 1) ; Supriya Nagarajan, Seán Clancy, Marc Yeats, Claudia Molitor, Jobina Tinnemans, Ailís Ní Ríain, Michael Betteri...
Tuesday, 19 January 2021

The Cumnock Tryst and Trinity College announce new ten-year partnership

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Sir James MacMillan Sir James MacMillan's Ayrshire-based festival The Cumnock Tryst is expanding its community engagement and music educ...

Bach & the art of transcription: Benjamin Alard's survey of Bach's keyboard works reaches the late Weimar period and the composer's discovery of Vivaldi's concertos

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Volume 4: "Alla Veneziana" - Concerti Italiani ; Benjamin Alard; Harmoni...
Monday, 18 January 2021

Can "High Art" Be Inclusive? American ensemble Imani Winds hosts two on-line panel discussions as part of the launch of its latest recording on Bright Shiny Things

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On 5 February 2021, Bright Shiny Things will be releasing a new disc Bruits from Imani Winds (Brandon Patrick George, flute; Toyin Spellma...

First four months of Barbara Hannigan's initiative Momentum - our future now, a huge success

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Susie Allan, Kathryn Rudge, Edward Hawkins, Roderick Williams at Spotlight Chamber Concerts in December 2020 St John's Waterloo (Photo M...

Nonclassical launches fund to support fees for new commissions from Associate Composers

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Nonclassical is about to start recruiting its four Associate Composers for 2021-22. The scheme is open to unsigned and unpublished artists...

Sacred Ayres: Psalms, Hymns and Spirituals Songs by contemporary composer Paul Ayres from the chapel choir of Selwyn College on Regent Records

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Sacred Ayres : Paul Ayres - Psalms, Hymns, Spiritual Songs ; the chapel choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Sarah MacDonald; Regent Reco...
Sunday, 17 January 2021

A Life On-Line: Julia Child and Little Tich in music, Rossini's Armida at the Met

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Lee Hoiby: Bon Appetit! - Jamie Barton as Julia Child This week's listening has been quite varied, with Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven al...
Saturday, 16 January 2021

The performer is a mirror who should serve the text and the composer: French pianist Vincent Larderet discusses his approach in the light of his recent Liszt recital 'Between Light and Darkness'

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Vincent Larderet (Photo Karis Kennedy) The French pianist Vincent Larderet 's most recent discs have involved the music of his countryme...
Friday, 15 January 2021

All is not happy in opera in the Land of Fire and Ice

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Puccini: Tosca - Kristján Jóhannsson, Claire Rutter - Icelandic Opera 2017 (Photo Johanna Olafsdottir) All is not happy in opera in the Lan...

Northern Ireland Opera re-launches its Opera Studio, widening the range of those supported and trained

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Rossini: Hidden Extras (La Cambiale di Matrimonio) - Northern Ireland Opera Studio 2018 Northern Ireland Opera set up its Young Artist Prog...

City Music Foundation & Barts Heritage present concert series in Great Hall of St Bartholemew's Hospital

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City Music Foundation’s Director Clare Taylor and Artist Manager Latana Phoung From Emile Holba's The Hidden City The City Music Foundat...

Donizetti on the cusp: never a success in his lifetime, Opera Rara reveals much to enjoy in the composer's 1829 opera Il Paria

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Donizetti Il Paria ; Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, Misha Kiria, Marko Mimica, Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder; Opera Rara Revi...
Wednesday, 13 January 2021

All About Bach! - Only Stage's new on-line festival

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Gabriel Prokofiev The artist management company Only Stage has certainly been busy. Having recently announced a conducting competition, the ...

A beguiling disc: Aberdene 1662 from Maria Valdmaa & Mikko Perkola on ERP explores songs from the only book of secular music published in Scotland in the 17th century

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Aberdene 1662 , Songs from John Forbes' Songs and Fancies ; Maria Valdmaa, Mikko Perkola; ERP Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 11 J...
Tuesday, 12 January 2021

The Only Stage international Conducting Competition launches with an entirely on-line competition

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A new conducting competition which is open to musicians of any nationality and with no age limit. The Only Stage International Conducting Co...

Virtuosity and Protest: Frederic Rzewski's Songs of Insurrection receives its first recording

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Frederic Rzewski Songs of Insurrection ; Thomas Kotcheff; Coviello Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 January 2021 Star ratin...
Monday, 11 January 2021

New Year, new sessions: the Benedetti Foundation continues to keep string players active

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The Benedetti Foundation is continuing its campaign to keep string players active, despite lockdown, with a new series of virtual sessions. ...

Wind, Sand and Stars: OOTS' new digital concert explores the early days of aviation in the person of French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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This evening, 11 January 2020, the Orchestra of the Swan (OOTS), artistic director David Le Page, releases the latest in its series of Nigh...

Re-inventing Kurt Weill: How Lotte Lenya's performances of her husband's music in the 1950s, born of expediency, came to define how the songs were performed

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Bertolt Brecht, Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill in 1928 Lotte Lenya's recordings of her husband, Kurt Weill's music effectively defined t...
Sunday, 10 January 2021

A Life On-Line: Britten and John Donne, Rossini and Sir Walter Scott, Bach for Christmas

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Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne - Bernadette Iglich, Richard Dowling (Photo Beki Smith/Britten Pears Arts) This week the twelve days...