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Thursday, 19 May 2016

Irresistible warmth & charm - Haleluyáh – Il Mantovano Hebreo

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Profeti della Quinta - photo Mel et Lac (Ori Harmelin, Roman Melish, Lior Leibovici, Elam Rotem, Dan Dunkelblum, Doron Schleifer) Ha...

Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 1, 1810 to 1820

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Beethoven, Gail, Garat, Schubert, Sor, Tomasek, Viotti, Weber; Michael Schade, Lorna Anderson, Florian Boesch, Ann Murray, Sylvia Schwa...

Breaking the Rules, the imagined testimony of Carlo Gesualdo, composer and murderer

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Clare Norburn's musical play Breaking the Rules, the imagined testimony of Carlo Gesualdo, composer and murderer originally made its ...
Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus staged by Independent Opera's latest Directing Fellow

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Leigh Melrose - Biedermann and the Arsonists Independent Opera, 2015 - (c) Robbie Jack Independent Opera has announced its latest Dire...

INSPIRATION = DOVER

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Musical portraits of Dover by composer Nigel Clarke form the centrepiece of an evening of music and art at Dover's historic Maison Di...

God spake the word - Handel's Israel in Egypt at Westminster Abbey

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James O'Donnell, Choir of Westminster Abbey, St James' Baroque Handel Israel in Egypt ; The choir of Westminster Abbey, St Ja...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016

A walking tour of Kalamaja

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Having been in Tallinn, Estonia recently for the Estonian Music Days , I have written about our non-musical exploits exploring the Kalamaj...

International Opera Awards - winners in 2016

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Ermonela Jaho as Sister Angelica in Suor Angelica © ROH 2016. Photograph by Bill Cooper The tenor Gregory Kunde, who has recently made ...

Energetic Shakespeare celebrations 150 and 400 years on

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A Shakespeare Masque in Stratford, Ex Cathedra Consort and Chamber Choir with local Stratford school children photo credit John James, Un...

Listening for the first time: Messiah with the Dunedin Consort

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John Butt and the orchestra of the Dunedin Consort Handel Messiah ; Dr Ruth Smith, Dunedin Consort, John Butt; London Festival of Bar...
Monday, 16 May 2016

Work in Progress - Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini

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Simone Alberghini & Maurizio Muraro with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus and conductor Daniele Rustioni_(c) Russell Du...
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Songs to the Moon from the Myrthen Ensemble

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Songs to the Moon , Peter Warlock, Brahms, Schumann, Samuel Barber, Elizabeth Maconchy, Joseph Szulc, Mompou, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Cha...

Michael Finnissy, King Arthur and more - Club Inégales new season

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Peter Wiegold and notes inégales by Frederique Bellec Club Inégales opens its latest season on 19 May when the club will be celebrating...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

A striking new concert hall - Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie opens in 2017

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Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg - Photo Maxim Schulz Hamburg's striking new Elbphilharmonie concert hall opens in January 2017 and so the ...
Saturday, 14 May 2016

The art is in putting people together - artistic director Douglas Boyd talks about Garsington's 2016 season

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Cosi fan tutte - Garsington Opera 2015, conductor Douglas Boyd Kathryn Rudge (Dorabella) - photo credit Mark Douet Garsington Opera ...
Friday, 13 May 2016

Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music

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As part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Roald Dahl, the Magnard Ensemble (Suzannah Watson - flute, Mana Shibata - o...

#SaveEUYO

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In the UK, where government support for the Arts can seem penny-pinching at best, funding for the arts in Continental Europe can seem rath...

Dancing in Daylight - Contemporary Piano Trios from Ireland

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Dancing in Daylight John Buckley, Fergus Johnston, Rhona Clarke, Seoirse B o dley; The Fidelio Trio; Metier` Reviewed by Robert ...
Thursday, 12 May 2016

Vox Luminis - Light and Shadow, music at the time of Elizabeth I

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Vox Luminis Tallis, White, Sheppard, Byrd, Tomkins, Ramsey, Weelkes, Morley; Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier; Cadogan Hall Reviewed...
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New audiences and alternative classical musics - the 2016 RPS Music Awards

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Graham Vick (right) presented with Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society by John Gilhooly (left) at the RPS Music Awards,...