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Monday, 19 October 2020

Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas and more, in historically informed performances from cellist Viola de Hoog and pianist Mikayel Balyan

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Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas , Piano Trio No. 1 ; Viola de Hoog, Mikayel Balyan, Marten Root; Vivat Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 16 Oc...

Beethoven and Black muses at the Oxford Lieder Festival

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Stephan Loges Before Beethoven / An Imperfect Tapestry ; Stephan Loges, Eugene Asti, Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper; Oxford Lieder Fest...
Sunday, 18 October 2020

Classical-music aficionado, Tony Cooper, looks in on the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s special anniversary year

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Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in 2014 (Photo Sim Canetty-Clarke) As the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates...
Saturday, 17 October 2020

Six Songs of Melmoth: premiere of Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new song-cycle at Oxford Lieder Festival

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Joseph Middleton, Carolyn Sampson - Oxford Lieder Festival 2020 (Photo taken from live stream) Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Schubert, Satie, Poldo...

A song is a song is a song: composer Errollyn Wallen on her multi-faceted career and her forthcoming EP with King's College Choir

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Errollyn Wallen (Photo Cathy Masser) Composer Errollyn Wallen has a new EP out next month, Peace on Earth, three choral works recorded by t...
Friday, 16 October 2020

ORA Singers announce second Composer Competition for pupils from UK state schools

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ORA Singers' 2019 Composer Competition final concert (Photo Nick Rutter) ORA Singers (artistic director Suzi Digby) has announced its se...

The children of Rathfern Primary School get creative: A Boat In An Endless Sea

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Despite lockdown, the children of Rathfern Primary School in Catford have managed to still be creative. Aided by soprano Kelly Poukens and ...

From early Schubert to late Geoffry Bush: Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson at the Oxford Lieder Festival

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Graham Johnson & Robin Tritschler at the Oxford Lieder Festival 2020 (Photo taken from live-stream) Barber, Schubert, Ives, Duke, St E...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Author of Light: The Sixteen in an engaging and uplifting programme of Tudor music at Temple Church

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Thomas Campion Author of Light - Campion, Cornysh, Byrd, De Monte; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, David Miller; Temple Church Revi...

Bloomsbury Festival 2020: live, on-line and on the radio

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  On 16 October 2020, the Bloomsbury Festival launches with over 100 events in and around Bloomsbury, inside, outside, on-line and on Blooms...

Leeds Lieder's Autumn weekend, on-line and in person

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What are you doing for Halloween this year? Leeds Lieder hopes that you will be settling down with counter-tenor Iestyn Davies, pianist Jose...
Tuesday, 13 October 2020

#MakeMusicWork

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Whilst the announcements of the government's emergency funding for arts organisations is welcome news, much of this money seems destined...

The City of Derry International Choir Festival

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The City of Derry International Choir Festival has been part of Northern Ireland's musical life since 2013,  with its combination of par...

Huddersfield Choral Society commissions two new works in memory of departed colleagues

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Like choral groups the world over, the Huddersfield Choral Society was silenced by the pandemic and it lost members to COVID-19. To create ...
Monday, 12 October 2020

Glyndebourne's outdoor Offenbach comes indoors with a terrific ensemble cast

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Offenbach: In the market for Love - Rupert Charlesworth, Nardus Williams, Matthew Rose, Brenden Gunnell, Michael Wallace Glyndebourne (...

A Life On-Line: Walton & Sitwell in Art-Deco splendour, Handel in Italy, Purcell in London, Frederic Rzewski in New York

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Reginald Mobley & Quodlibet Ensemble at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City The Freemasons Hall might seem a strange location for Wil...
Saturday, 10 October 2020

Their job is to be advocates for the music: Rakhi Singh of Manchester Collective on the group's recent EP 'Recreation'

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Rakhi Singh (Photo César Vásquez Altamirano) During lockdown the Manchester Collective has been continuing to be active, the group's w...
Friday, 9 October 2020

Introducing Poem No. 1 by Jan Harris

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Poem No. 1 for large-orchestra by Essex-born composer Jan Harris has been broadcast on BBC Introducing and was performed by the Andover Li...

Birmingham Opera Company to stage Das Rheingold in a disused metalworks

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Historic photo of the Tubeworks, Birmingham Ever since the Centenary Ring at Bayreuth in 1976, when Patrice Chéreau famously staged the tetr...

Wagner 22: Oper Leipzig says farewell to its music director with all 13 of Wagner's operas

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Wagner: The Ring - Siegfried - Oper Leipzig in 2018 (photo Tom_Schulze) In 2018, our correspondent Tony Cooper saw Richard Wagner's Ri...