My review of Weber's Der Freischütz performed by Midsummer Opera is here on Music and Vision (subscription site).

My review of the Naxos recording of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda is here . Nowhere near a library recommendation. ... A name new to me; a ...

The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music opens in a couple of weeks time, on May 8th. Based, as usual, at St. Pancras Church, the fe...

Reading this month's Opera magazine, there's a review of Menotti's The Saint of Bleeker Street from Marseille. As usual with p...

Amazingly it is 5 years since the Royal Opera last performed Rossini's Il Turco in Italia and this was the first revival of Moshe Leise...

So we have details of ENO's new season as well. As usual, the second half of the season is only sketched in, no fine detail provided. Jo...

On Wednesday we heard a preview the programme for Charles Owen's Wigmore Hall recital which takes place on Wed 21st April. He opened wit...

The programme for the Royal Opera's 2010/11 season has been announced. The new productions certainly cover an interesting range. Agostin...

Two re-issues today. My review of a disc of Cistercian plainchant from the Heinrich Isaac ensemble is here . Striking and very attractive .....

My review of the Chapelle du Roi's Tenebrae concert from St. John's Smith Square last week is now here , on Music and Vision.

To Amsterdam for a rather wet weekend which culminated in the first night of Berlioz's Les Troyens performed by the Netherlands Opera a...

A pair of rather different CD's reviewed. First off contemporary music, by Christopher Roberts, for the ancient Chinese instrument, the ...

It seems amazing that Covent Garden's production of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen is 20 year's old. Bill Bryden's prod...

My review of Katya Kabanova at the London Coliseum is here , on Music and Vision (subscription site). We saw the opera on Saturday, which w...

We use PayPal on the Spherical Editions web site (which sells my music) to take payments for music. It is very convenient for on-line sales...

On Tuesday we were back at the Barbican for a concert by the Munich Chamber Orchestra under their conductor Alexander Liebreich with soprano...

My review of Dido and Aeneas with Della Jones as Dido is here , on MusicWeb International. A good, solidly intelligent and musical account ...

The latest issue of Opera magazine contains initial information about next season's plans from Opera North and Welsh National Opera, plu...

On Thursday we were at the Cadogan Hall for a concert by the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge conducted by their director Stephen Layton....

For most people, if John Stainer's name means anything it is as the composer of the Victorian war-horse The Crucifixion , though that wo...