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Sunday, 3 July 2022

Arun Ghosh's The Canticle of the Sun at the Spitalfields Music Festival

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Arun Ghosh: The Canticle of the Sun - Arun Ghosh & ensemble - Spitalfields Festival at St John on Bethnal Green Arun Ghosh: The Canticl...
Saturday, 2 July 2022

New ways of working: composer Andrew Chen has two contrasting pieces at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival

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Andrew Chen London-based Australian composer Andrew Chen has two pieces being premiered at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival , the ...
Friday, 1 July 2022

Unsung Heroines: Lauren Fagan & Opera Holland Park Young Artists in a celebration of women composers and more

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Lauren Fagan Unsung Heroines : Clara Schumann, R. Strauss, Ilse Weber, Stefania Turkewich, Graciane Finzi, Bachelet, Rachmaninov, Madeleine ...
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Edinburgh International Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary with 35,000 free tickets

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Ukraine Freedom Orchestra © 2022  Edinburgh International Festival is 75 and to celebrate it is giving out 35,0000 free tickets to four larg...

Shaping the future of opera together: Opera UK's Changemaking Conversations

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The professional membership organisation for Opera in the UK has announced a series of online events, taking place in July, to help shape th...

From Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre to Jörg Widmann: Dunedin Consort's new season

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The Dunedin Consort's 2022/23 season includes a new partnership with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) with them residence a...
Thursday, 30 June 2022

Fifth Door Ensemble returns with a double bill of Bartok's Bluebeard and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins

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Last year, tenor Charne Rochford's Fifth Door Ensemble made its debut at Opera Holland Park with a performance of Mahler's Das Lied ...

Premiere of James MacMillan's Mass of St Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey as part of celebrations for the Feast of St Peter

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Yesterday (29 June 2022) was the Feast of St Peter, Apostle and Martyr. St Peter is also the Patron of Westminster Abbey and so there was a...
Wednesday, 29 June 2022

New season at St Martin in the Fields

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The church of St Martin-in-the-Fields has announced its Autumn season, continuing the venues development of its role as a significant concer...

An exciting rediscovery: Mercadante's Il proscritto proves far more than a museum piece in this thrilling revival from Opera Rara

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Mercadante: Il proscritto - Iván Ayón-Rivas & Ramón Vargas - Opera Rara at the Barbican (Photo Russell Duncan) Mercadante: Il Proscritt...
Tuesday, 28 June 2022

The Military Wives Choirs is celebrating ten years of bringing women in the military community together

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Laura Wright with the Military Wives Choirs (Photo Rosie Powell) This year the Military Wives Choirs celebrates ten years since the charity ...

Over 4,000 young people to come together to perform at Music for Youth National Festival in Birmingham

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The annual Music for Youth National Festival is in Birmingham this year, on 8 & 9 July 2022 when over 4,000 young people will come toget...

Voices of Power: Luke Styles' new oratorio at Three Choirs Festival

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Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir (Photo: Michael Whitefoot) Having had his saxophone concerto Tracks in the Orbit premiered by BBC Nationa...

The Telling's Empowered Women

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The Telling The Telling are taking three of Clare Norburn's concert plays on tour under the title,  The Empowered Women Trilogy , from 2...
Monday, 27 June 2022

A new song festival on the edge of the Cotswolds: Shipston Song

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During lockdown, pianist Ian Tindale produced a fine series of recital films from the music room in a house in the Cotswolds [see my article...

Love in Bloom: for its Pride concert, the Fourth Choir explores the subject of love

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Stone Nest Under guest conductor Ben Horden, the Fourth Choir is presenting Love in Bloom  at Stone Nest on Shaftesbury Avenue on Saturday 9...

Michael Bakrnčev's Calm

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Australian composer, Michael Bakrnčev 's Calm  – Trio for Flute, Violin and Harp, was written a wedding gift for Michael’s wife, and pe...

An afternoon delight: Anna Morrisey's inventive production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville at Nevill Holt Opera, in a finely musical performance conducted by Dinis Sousa

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Rossini: The Barber of Seville - end of Act One - Nevill Holt Opera 2022 (Photo Genevieve Girling) Rossini: The Barber of Seville ; Liam Bo...
Saturday, 25 June 2022

Poetic drama & real musicality: highly imaginative Rusalka from Jack Furness at Garsington with Natalya Romaniw as a compelling water nymph

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Dvorak: Rusalka - Natalya Romaniw - Garsington Opera (Photo Clive Barda) Antonin Dvorak: Rusalka ; Natalya Romaniw, John Findon, Henry Wadd...

Obsessed by voices: pianist Dylan Perez on recording the complete songs of Samuel Barber

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Pianist Dylan Perez at the recording sessions for the complete Samuel Barber songs on Resonus Classics In May 2022, pianist Dylan Perez rel...
Friday, 24 June 2022

Closeness & distance: Friedrich Cerha's evocation of Viennese traditional music in a new version for Viennese Schrammel quartet

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Friedrich Cerha:   Keintate I, II  (parts);   Holger Falk ,  Attensam Quartett (Annette Bik & Gunde Jäch-Micko, violins, Ingrid Eder, bu...
Thursday, 23 June 2022

London Handel Orchestra at BST Hyde Park Open House

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BST Hyde Park is a large scale open-air event taking place in Hyde Park over three weekend, presenting names such as Elton John, the Eagles ...

Returning to Bridgewater Hall for the first time since the pandemic, 200 young musicians from Chetham's School in Stravinsky & more

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Musicians from Chetham's Symphony Orchestra rehearsing More than 200 young musicians will come together on the stage of Manchester's...

Never such innocence: Benjamin Hewat-Craw & Yuhao Guo in RVW, Butterworth & Gurney

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Never such innocence - Vaughan Williams: The House of Life ,  George Butterworth: Six songs of A Shropshire Lad; Ivor Gurney: Five Elizabet...
Wednesday, 22 June 2022

The Firebird: an opera for puppets by Noah Mosley & Michael Rosen produced by English Touring Opera & the Little Angel Theatre

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The Firebird  takes a familiar story, reworked by Michael Rosen, and creates something charmingly different. Co-produced by English Touring...

The Lost Art of Frances Cole: recordings from the 1970s provide a glimpse of the art of the Black American harpsichordist

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The Lost Art of Frances Cole:  Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, Gottschalk, Bartok, Ligeti, Howard Swanson; Frances Cole, Parnassus Reviewed 21 June...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Bertie Baigent appointed Principal Assistant Conductor at Rotterdam Philharmonic after win at International Conducting Competition Rotterdam

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Bertie Baigent (Photo Marije Schot) Congratulations to conductor Bertie Baigent who, having won the Grand Prix at the International Conducti...

A snapshot of music under lockdown: NMC's music map for The Big Lockdown Music Survey

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Lockdown changed the way we both produced and listened to music. In order to capture something of this, NMC Recordings held an open call for...

Celebrating 60 years of the Delius Society with new music and recent Delius discoveries

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Frederick Delius in 1897 by Christian Krohg (1852–1925)  The Delius Society is marking its 60th birthday with a concert at the Angela Burges...

Giving voice to unconventional instruments: the Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet

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Eve Beglarian, Alex Temple, Moondog, Rei Coman, Arvo Part, John Cage; Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet Reviewed 14 June 2022 (★★★½) ...
Monday, 20 June 2022

From Father Willis' last organ to English musical life around 1700 and the musical coal-merchant: King's Lynn Festival's Early Music Day

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Thomas Brittain, the musical small coal-man The King’s Lynn Festival takes place from Sunday 17 July until Saturday 30 July 2022, presenting...