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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 The scheme is open to unsigned and unpublished artists...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...
Saturday, 9 January 2021

Mysteries: Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer on how combining music by a Soviet Russian composer and contemporary French one made a satisfying new disc

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Sabine Weyer The Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer is releasing a disc this month on the ARS Produktion label, entitled Mysteries , com...
Friday, 8 January 2021

The missing link: romances by Alexander Dargomyzhshky, a friend of Glinka and an influence on a later generation of Russian composers

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Alexander Dargomyzhshky Romances ; Anastasia Prokofieva, Sergey Rybin; Stone Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 January 2021 S...
Thursday, 7 January 2021

If Haydn went to Scotland: the Maxwell Quartet continues its exploration of Haydn's London quartets alongside 18th century Scots traditional tunes

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Haydn String Quartets Op.74 , Folk music from Scotland; Maxwell Quartet; Linn Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 31 December 2020...
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Wednesday, 6 January 2021

A weekend of genre-bending events inspired by Baroque music - Baroque at the Edge returns on-line

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This weekend the Baroque at the Edge festival is planning to give us another blast of its genre-bending Baroque music inspired events. Runni...

A surprisingly complex work: Puccini's late Verismo classic, Il Tabarro, in a new studio recording from Dresden

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Puccini Il Tabarro ; Melody Moore, Brian Jagde, Lester Lynch, Dresdner Philharmonie, Marek Janowski; PENTATONE Reviewed by Robert Hug...
Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Love's Fever: Written after the Black Death in Florence, this 14th century song proves remarkably prescient.

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Deh Lassa La Mia Vita This new film from opera and theatre director Eric Fraad , Love's Fever , takes a text from the end of Day Seven...

Dowland transmuted: Time Stands Still from Portuguese composer Nuno Côrte-Real

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John Dowland, Nuno Côrte-Real Time Stands Still ; Ana Quintans, Ensemble Darcos, Nuno Côrte-Real; Artway Records Reviewed by Robert H...
Monday, 4 January 2021

Calling all young composers: Conway Hall announces the Clements Prize for Composers

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Conway Hall Sunday Concerts has announced the Clements Prize for Composers, inviting young composers (35 or under) to submit works for strin...

The pocket watch and the news periodical: how the public concert developed in 17th and 18th century London

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Hanover Square Rooms In 1672 John Banister, a former violinist at the court of King Charles II, set up a concert room in his house and start...