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Tuesday, 27 October 2020

A digital opera for our modern age: VOPERA debuts its film of Ravel's opera

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Putting opera onto film too often simply consists of pointing cameras at a staged performance and letting things run. Sometimes directors ge...

More than a curiosity: Malcolm Arnold's forgotten opera The Dancing Master

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Malcolm Arnold The Dancing Master ; Eleanor Dennis, Catherine Carby, Fiona Kimm, Ed Lyon, Mark Wilde, Graeme Broadbent, BBC Concert Orc...
Monday, 26 October 2020

An evening of thoughtful & uplifting music from Héloı̈se Werner, Kit Downes & Colin Alexander as St John's Smith Square's Autumn programme continues

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Performing interesting repertoire within the limits of current restrictions remains a challenge, but one to which some musicians are rising ...

An honourable failure or a misunderstood masterpiece? Another look at Weber's Oberon

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Weber: Oberon Lucia Elizabeth Vestris as Fatima in an 1826 etching Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon is commonly regarded as an honou...

Weber at home: Complete keyboard duets from Julian Perkins and Emma Abbate

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Carl Maria von Weber Complete Keyboard Duets ; Julian Perkins, Emma Abbate; Deux-Elles Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 October 2020...

Premeres of two new song cycles by Iain Bell at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the London Song Festival

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Thom Gunn (Photo Ander Gunn) The forthcoming weeks see the premieres of two song cycles by Iain Bell , in Salzburg and in London. Both setti...
Sunday, 25 October 2020

A Life On-Line: A Feast in the Time of Plague, an oboe concerto in time of war, an Arcadian Academy in Surrey

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Sevak Avanesyan in the recently bombed Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi (Artsakh) Quite a busy column this week, as our short holiday in t...
Saturday, 24 October 2020

Everything via Association: composer Vic Hoyland on his 75th birthday

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A recent photo of Vic Hoyland at home in Yorkshire The composer Vic Hoyland was due to celebrate his 75th birthday this year with a concer...
Friday, 23 October 2020

Welcome to the high energy world of Irish composer Ed Bennett: Psychedelia from NMC

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Ed Bennett Psychedelia ; RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, David Brophy, Kate Ellis, Decibel, Daniele Rosina, Orkest de Ereprijs, Wim Boe...

Recitals with attitude: Wimbledon International Music Festival's 2020 on-line celebration

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This year's Wimbledon International Music Festival will be a series of filmed performances which are being streamed on-line from 13 to ...

Music and architecture combined in The Sixteen's A Choral Odyssey

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This time of year we are usually looking forward to The Sixteen's forthcoming Choral Pilgrimage, the choir's annual tour round cathe...

New artistic director for Northern Ireland Opera

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Cameron Menzies It certainly is all-change for opera in Northern Ireland, hot on the heels of the creation of Ulster Touring Opera, artistic...
Thursday, 22 October 2020

From the whole earth dancing to a day in hell: chamber music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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The Whole Earth Dances - Cheryl Frances Hoad; Champs Hill Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 October 2020 Star rating: 4.5 ...

BCMG celebrates the centenary of Paul Celan with its first live concert since lockdown

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Paul Celan Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is launching its 2020/21 season on 22 November 2020 with a concert at the CBSO Centre ...

The Soldier's Return: Opera Sunderland takes its latest community opera on-line

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Austin Gunn, Andri Bjorn Robertsson, Magnus from Meerkat filming The Soldier's Return Opera Sunderland's 2020 project was The Soldie...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

The case against Wagner - David Faiman's Meyerbeer: The deliberately forgotten composer

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David Faiman Giacomo Meyerbeer: The deliberately forgotten composer ; Gefen Publishing House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 20 October ...

The piano trio and beyond at Conway Hall

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Linos Piano Trio (Photo Kaupo Kikkas) Having given us the Mithras Trio in Haydn, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky [see my review ], the Conway Ha...
Monday, 19 October 2020

Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas and more, in historically informed performances from cellist Viola de Hoog and pianist Mikayel Balyan

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Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas , Piano Trio No. 1 ; Viola de Hoog, Mikayel Balyan, Marten Root; Vivat Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 16 Oc...

Beethoven and Black muses at the Oxford Lieder Festival

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Stephan Loges Before Beethoven / An Imperfect Tapestry ; Stephan Loges, Eugene Asti, Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper; Oxford Lieder Fest...
Sunday, 18 October 2020

Classical-music aficionado, Tony Cooper, looks in on the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s special anniversary year

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Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in 2014 (Photo Sim Canetty-Clarke) As the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates...
Saturday, 17 October 2020

Six Songs of Melmoth: premiere of Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new song-cycle at Oxford Lieder Festival

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Joseph Middleton, Carolyn Sampson - Oxford Lieder Festival 2020 (Photo taken from live stream) Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Schubert, Satie, Poldo...

A song is a song is a song: composer Errollyn Wallen on her multi-faceted career and her forthcoming EP with King's College Choir

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Errollyn Wallen (Photo Cathy Masser) Composer Errollyn Wallen has a new EP out next month, Peace on Earth, three choral works recorded by t...
Friday, 16 October 2020

ORA Singers announce second Composer Competition for pupils from UK state schools

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ORA Singers' 2019 Composer Competition final concert (Photo Nick Rutter) ORA Singers (artistic director Suzi Digby) has announced its se...

The children of Rathfern Primary School get creative: A Boat In An Endless Sea

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Despite lockdown, the children of Rathfern Primary School in Catford have managed to still be creative. Aided by soprano Kelly Poukens and ...

From early Schubert to late Geoffry Bush: Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson at the Oxford Lieder Festival

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Graham Johnson & Robin Tritschler at the Oxford Lieder Festival 2020 (Photo taken from live-stream) Barber, Schubert, Ives, Duke, St E...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Author of Light: The Sixteen in an engaging and uplifting programme of Tudor music at Temple Church

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Thomas Campion Author of Light - Campion, Cornysh, Byrd, De Monte; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, David Miller; Temple Church Revi...
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Bloomsbury Festival 2020: live, on-line and on the radio

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  On 16 October 2020, the Bloomsbury Festival launches with over 100 events in and around Bloomsbury, inside, outside, on-line and on Blooms...

Leeds Lieder's Autumn weekend, on-line and in person

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What are you doing for Halloween this year? Leeds Lieder hopes that you will be settling down with counter-tenor Iestyn Davies, pianist Jose...