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Monday, 17 November 2025

Youthful & engaging with relish for text & drama: Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea from HGO at Jackson's Lane Theatre

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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - Hera Protopapas (Nerone), Theano Papadaki (Poppea) - HGO at Jackson's Lane Theatre (Photo:...
Sunday, 16 November 2025

From Amy Beach to Lori Laitman & Zachary James Bramble: The Life and Loves of Sarah Teasdale gave us the chance to explore contemporary American late-romanticism at London Song Festival

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Sara Teasdale. Photograph by Gerhard Sisters, ca. 1910 Missouri History Museum Photograph and Print Collection The Life and Loves of Sarah T...
Saturday, 15 November 2025

The Rain Keeps Coming: Amelia Clarkson, the youngest female composer ever commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra, on her new work for them which premiered last month

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Amelia Clarkson The Rain Keeps Coming by Northern Irish composer Amelia Clarkson was premiered by the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster Hall...
Friday, 14 November 2025

A spectacular new waterside home planned for Hamburg State Opera, designed by BIG architecture studio

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BIG - designs for Hamburg State Opera, renders by Yanis Amasri (images: BIG) Hamburg State Opera is on the move, or at least plans to be. T...

The Sixteen Ignite, a new, fully-funded, dedicated talent pathway for young singers

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The Sixteen has announced a new strand to its Learning & Participation programme which seeks to support young singers in finding a pathw...

Agnes Baltsa, Marina Rebeka, Asmik Grigorian, Nicholas Brownlee, Adèle Charvet, Hugh Cutting & many more rewarded at the 2025 International Opera Awards in Athens

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Agnes Baltsa, Lifetime Achievement Award winner International Opera Awards 2025 - (Photo: GNO/Simopoulos) 'Tis the season for awards. Ho...
Thursday, 13 November 2025

A concert celebrating the legacy of the legendary classical guitarist, Julian Bream, at Wigmore Hall promises a great night for guitar aficionados.

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Thibaut Garcia, Continuing the legacy of the brilliant and pioneering British classical guitarist, Julian Bream, the equally brilliant Fren...
Wednesday, 12 November 2025

2025 Ivors Classical Awards: Anibal Vidal, Anna Clyne, Helen Grime, Jonathan Dove, Luke Mombrea, Nneka Cummins, Anne Dudley, Anoushka Shankar and Debbie Wiseman

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Jonathan Dove and April de Angelis, winners of the Award for Best Community and Participation Composition at The Ivors Classical Awards [Ph...

Poetic exploration: Ensemble Près de votre oreille in an engaging exploration of chamber & vocal music by William Lawes

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Lighten mine eies -  William Lawes: selected psalms & harp consorts; Ensemble Près de votre oreille, Robin Pharo; Harmonia Mundi Reviewe...
Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Shimmer: the National Youth Orchestra launches 2026 with impressions of Spain and Anne Clyne's dancing cello

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The National Youth Orchestra (NYO) launches 2026 with  Shimmer,  a three-date tour where the orchestra will be conducted by Alexandre Bloch ...

The other brother: music by Galileo Galilei's younger brother on this lovely new EP

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It is now moderately well-known that the great scientist Galileo Galilei's father, Vincenzo was a fine musician and there have been musi...
Monday, 10 November 2025

A bold, atmospheric work rooted in English folklore, ritual, & superstition: Shadwell Opera & Opera North give the stage premiere of Isabella Gellis' The Devil's Den

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Ben Edge: Devil's Den Last year I chatted to conductor Finnegan Downie Dear (artistic director of Shadwell Opera) and composer Isabella...

Dramatic Messiah: Wild Arts brings its dramatised presentation of Handel's oratorio back for a third tour

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Handel: Messiah - Wild Arts at Smith Square Hall in 2024 (Photo: Steve Gregson) We caught Wild Arts' dramatised presentation of Handel...

An ambitious project that seeks to reimagine one of our great literary giants: Alastair White & Gemma A Williams ask how you adapt Finnegan's Wake for the musical stage

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 James Joyce began his novel Finnegan's Wake  in 1924 publishing it in instalments with the final book only being published in 1939. Joy...
Saturday, 8 November 2025

Fascinating, distracting & frustrating: Janáček's Makropulos Case gets its first production at Covent Garden in director Katie Mitchell's farewell to opera

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Janácek: The Makropulos Case - Act 2: Heather Engebretson, Susan Bickley, Jenry Waddington, Sean Panikkar, Ausrine Stundyte - Royal Opera ...

James Blades: Pandemonium of the One-Man Band - James Anthony-Rose on his new music theatre piece on the great percussionist

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James Blades The percussionist James Blades (1901-1999) had a career that not only spanned much of the century but also moved from circus dr...
Friday, 7 November 2025

From bel canto to Harlem Renaissance: Lawrence Brownlee & Iain Burnside's recital at Wigmore Hall

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Lawrence Brownlee Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is on of the premier bel canto tenors around at the moment. And he's rightly busy, his season ...

A somewhat quirky mood: Stephen McNeff's new violin concerto for Fenella Humphreys & London Mozart Players mixes Baroque inspiration with something more contemporary

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The London Mozart Players (Photo: Kaupo Kickkas) On Friday 21 November 2025, violinist Fenella Humphreys, the London Mozart Players and cond...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

A new solo album from British pianist, Alexander Ullman, features a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining selection of music by Edvard Grieg - ‘The Chopin of the North’

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Edvard Grieg: Songs, Moods and Lyric Pieces ; Alexander Ullman; Rubicon Classics  Reviewed by Tony Cooper (31 October 2025) The prize of Ull...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Portraits of Mind: music by Ian Venables, Ralph Vaughan Williams & George Butterworth in a glorious celebration of Venables' 70th birthday at Temple Music

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Temple Church Ian Venables: Out of the Shadows , Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves , On Wenlock Edge , Love Bade me Welcome , Butte...