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Thursday, June 1, 2023

| Gramophone

Alongside concerts by VOCES8 and Apollo5 will be special appearances by Rachel Podger, Ola Gjeilo, Jack Liebeck and Mary Bevan

The Festival With Love: Festival Academy Budapest 2023

Thursday, June 1, 2023

| Gramophone

Now for the eighth year, the world’s eyes once again turn to Hungary and the celebration that is the Festival Academy Budapest. Between July 14 and 23, the 10-day classical chamber music festival will fill the city’s most special venues with music and life

Should I be concerned about the widespread ignorance of classical music?

Opinion

Thursday, June 1, 2023

| International Piano

In the wider world, why is ignorance bliss when it comes to classical music, wonders a despairing Charivari

Why do so few female composers appear on recital programmes?

Opinion

Thursday, June 1, 2023

| International Piano

Should gender come before talent when programming composers? Charivari steps onto a slippery slope

Gustavo Dudamel to leave Paris Opera

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Opera Now

The announcement comes two years into an intended six year tenure

Otto Klemperer - a monumental life on record

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| Gramophone

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the conductor's death, we explore the links between his life and music - plus, hear interviews with people who knew him

Dudamel steps down in Paris for personal reasons

Saturday, May 27, 2023

| Gramophone

Conductor to leave Paris Opera after less than two years in post

Modartt releases Pianoteq 8 for iOS

Friday, May 26, 2023

| International Piano

Pianoteq is a modelled piano that you can install on your computer, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux

International Piano: introducing the June 2023 issue, featuring Saskia Giorgini

Friday, May 26, 2023

| International Piano

Saskia Giorgini: bringing poetry to Liszt | Byron Janis: the great American pianist's legacy | Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a survey on record

Moriz Rosenthal: charmer or charlatan?

Friday, May 26, 2023

| International Piano

Bryce Morrison explores the inimitable playing of Moriz Rosenthal

Video of the Day: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Debussy's Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

Friday, May 26, 2023

| Gramophone

Isata Kanneh-Mason's new album, 'Childhood Tales', features Debussy's Children's Corner

Reginald Mobley on his new album, 'Because'

Podcasts

Friday, May 26, 2023

| Gramophone

The countertenor on the moving power of the Spiritual

HMV returns to Oxford Street

Friday, May 26, 2023

| International Piano

LPs will feature strongly in the new-look shop, along with pop culture merchandise and technology

Inon Barnatan records Rachmaninov

Friday, May 26, 2023

| International Piano

The unique part of this album is the first recording of Barnatan’s own solo-piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances, Op 45

Introducing the June 2023 issue of Choir & Organ

Thursday, May 25, 2023

| Choir and Organ

How three organ building firms collaborated to reconstruct a Baroque organ destroyed by fire in the Basilica of St Elizabeth in Wrocław, Poland

Just how boring are modern piano recitals?

Opinion

Thursday, May 25, 2023

| International Piano

Piano recitals are boring. At least, some are. Charivari peruses concert programmes from another age and finds himself wishing that modern pianists were as willing to entertain

Andrew Parrott on The Taverner Consort at 50: ‘It’s not that I believe in perfection. I think that could be very boring’

Thursday, May 25, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The Taverner Consort, Choir & Players were among the first pioneers in the modern age to perform early music. Its founder Andrew Parrott is still driven by an urge to push boundaries

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Contemporary music also features in the festival’s programme, with a concert of arrangements for organ and percussion of pieces by rock musician Frank Zappa

BBC Proms 2023 announced: three of Choir & Organ’s 2023 New Music composers have Proms premieres

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

| Choir and Organ

BBC Singers will perform at five Proms, including the First and Last Nights and a Late Night Prom, showcasing their broad range of repertoire

In memoriam: Barry Humphries

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Barry Humphries was undeniably an opera lover of devotion and authenticity

Video of the Day: Roderick Williams sings on a windswept Aldeburgh Beach

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Gramophone

Roderick Williams sings the folksong O Waly, Waly on Aldeburgh Beach to launch the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival

Opera at the BBC Proms 2023

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Opera Now

A stand-out complete performance of Berlioz’s The Trojans comes on 3 September, bringing this five-act opera back to the UK for the first time in over 10 years

Royal Opera House announces its 2023/2024 season

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Pappano’s last new production will be Strauss’s Elektra in January 2024 with Nina Stemme in the title role, and Karita Mattila as the haunted queen Klytämnestra

Olivier Awards celebrate achievements in London opera