My review of Puccini's Il Trittico  at Covent Garden is here , on Music and Vision (subscription site).

This year's London Song Festival , takes place between 1st  and 30th of November, with 5 concerts and 2 masterclasses at St. George...

John Fulljames's production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene was first seen in 2008, a co-production between The Opera Group, the Yo...

A stray which I seem to have missed. Here's the review of the CD of Kris Defoort's The Woman who walked into doors , This is a fa...

My review of Bach's Matthew Passion from King's College Cambridge with Rogers Covey Crump at the Evangelist is here . Intelligentl...

The New Queens Hall Orchestra was founded by John Boyden in 1992; so  this year it is celebrating the start of its 20th anniversary season. ...

The LSO are performing Weber's Der Freischutz in April 2012 at the Barbican, details here . Witha rather more traditionally heavyweight...

Sculpting Air – Navona Records, NV5852  Modern works for Wind instruments This disc from Navona Records is an interesting asse...

We managed to catch the end of the Last Night of the Proms on TV where Susan Bullock's performance (visual as much as aural) of Rule Bri...

It is good news that Wilton's Music Hall seems set to stay open. The theatre is a wonderfully evocative space, but when they failed to g...

Over the bank holiday weekend Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players played Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Proms (we missed it...

For an opera described as Weber's masterwork, Der Freischutz remains a relatively rare visitor to the UK's stages. It's combina...

One of the areas that I often struggle with when writing music is exactly how to write it out. You can be quite clear as to what you want,...

If you think about the cor anglais as a solo instrument, then probably a long breathed, melancholic melody comes to mind when the instrume...

My review of a disc of Alessandro Grandi's sacred music, themed on the Vespers service is here , on MusicWeb International. This ...

Last weekend was, of course, the premiere of my Elegy for baritone and piano sextet. There were problems from the start because Finale had ...

If you can perform Puccini's La Boheme in the confines of the upstairs room in a pub, then the idea of performing Wagner's Das Rhei...

Sheena Coote's disc Mixed Blessings was issued by Red Admiral Records on11th June. Coote describes Mixed Blessings as a collection of...

I had been hoping that most of Robert Carsen's production would get mislayed when Glyndebourne travelled up the M23 to bring Handel'...

My review of Rossini's opera La cambiale di matrimonio on Naxos, recorded at the Rossini in Wildbad festival, is here Lively ...