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Wednesday, 10 May 2023

The Library of a Prussian Princess: Ensemble Augelletti at the Newbury Spring Festival

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Ensemble Augelletti The Library of a Prussian Princess ; Ensemble Augelletti at the Newbury Spring Festival; Corn Exchange, Newbury Reviewed...
Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Women of Note: Arch Sinfonia and Chloé Van Soeterstède in music by Lucy Armstrong, Ylva Skog and Emilie Mayer

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Arch Sinfonia and Chloé Van Soeterstède Arch Sinfonia and conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède's Women of Note  concert, the programme of whi...

Guildhall Young Artists: Guildhall School's network of centres that provides performing and production arts training for children and young people.

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Students at GYA Norwich (Photo: Phil Barnes Photography) The Guildhall School for Music and Drama has expanded its provision for training ch...

Summer at Snape

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Britten Pears Arts' Summer at Snape  returns this year with six weeks of events at venues across Snape Maltings and The Red House in Ald...

Classical Pride at the Barbican

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In what seems to be something of a first for a major classical music organisation, Oliver Zeffmann will be conducting the City of Birmingham...
Friday, 5 May 2023

Meditating, listening & letting the music unfold: Syrian composer & musician Maya Youssef on the inspirations behind her music

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Maya Youssef The Syrian composer and musician Maya Youssef released her second album, Finding Home , last year. Now based in the UK, the lo...

Cautionary Tales: the current cohort of Young Artists from the National Opera Studio in an evening of contemporary opera

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Cautionary Tales - National Opera Studio with Opera North at Wilton's Music Hall (Photo Malcolm I Johnson) Cautionary Tales : Judith We...

Introducing Gayathri Khemadasa:

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Gayathri Khemadasa Gayathri Khemadasa, a renowned Sri Lankan composer, has made history by winning an international award for her music in t...
Thursday, 4 May 2023

The Flying Dutchman reinvented: OperaUpClose tours radical new version of Wagner's opera

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OperaUpClose , artistic director Flora McIntosh, is touring a radical new look at Wagner's The Flying Dutchman . From 28 June to 23 July...

Temple Song: Kate Royal, Christine Rice & Julius Drake in Brahms, Schumann and Weill

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Middle Temple Hall in its wisteria (Photo courtesy of Julius Drake ) Brahms: Zigeunerlieder , duets by Brahms and Schumann, songs by Kurt We...
Wednesday, 3 May 2023

The St Teilo Organ comes to Lincoln Cathedral as part of its Byrd 400 celebrations

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The St Teilo Organ As part of Lincoln Cathedral's Byrd 400  celebrations this year, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Byrd's de...

Hail, O Queen

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The Dunedin Consort's associate director, Nicholas Mulroy, directs the group in a programme of Marian music on a tour to Aberdeen, Perth...

Silence, texture and atmosphere: music by John Luther Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Judith Weir, and Gary Carpenter at Royal Academy of Music's Fragile Festival

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Stones and Light : John Luther Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Judith Weir, Gary Carpenter; Bridget Yee, Tiago Soares Silva, Oona Lowther, Aisha Palm...
Tuesday, 2 May 2023

London Sinfonietta in Enfield

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The London Sinfonietta is heading to Enfield for a residency at St Ignatius College, Enfield in May, marking the beginning of a longer-term ...

Shipston Song 2023

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Pianist Ian Tindale's Shipston Song  is returning for a second celebration of song in the Cotswolds from 22-24 September. Set in an inti...

As The Sun Brightens, The Shadows Deepen: Neil Hannon's new work for the Ulster Orchestra is inspired by his late father's role in a 1963 film on the development of Derry~Londonderry

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Image from Terence McDonald and John Hume's film A City Solitary On Friday 5 May 2023, the Ulster Orchestra will be giving the premiere ...
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Casta Diva: trumpeter Matilda Lloyd showing just what her instrument can do with elegant yet dazzling accounts of Italian bel canto arias

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Casta Diva : Donizetti, Viardot, Arban, Rossini, Bellini; Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia Soloists; Wigmore Hall    Reviewed 27 April 2023 C...
Saturday, 29 April 2023

Stop Motion Music: Edinburgh-based composer Neil T. Smith chats about his new disc, exploring the smaller-scale works he has written from the last eight years

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Neil T. Smith Edinburgh-based composer Neil T. Smith has an album out, Stop Motion Music on BandCamp . His debut album, it explores works ...
Friday, 28 April 2023

Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs at ENO in an astonishing visual treat from Isabella Bywater

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Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs , third movement - Nicole Chevalier - English National Opera (Photo: Clive Barda) Henryk Górecki: Symph...

Hooray for summer and all that it has to offer! Tony Cooper reports on this year’s BBC Proms, the world’s largest classical-music festival

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And summer has a lot to offer for classical-musical aficionados wherever they are with the BBC Proms running this year from Friday 14th July...