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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| Opera Now

Sir Simon Rattle leads an esteemed cast of singers in a concert version of Janáček's three-act opera

McPherson: Maud/Weill: Down in the Valley by Scottish Opera Young Company | Live Review

Monday, December 11, 2023

| Opera Now

A testing double bill is wonderfully delivered by the Scottish Opera's Young Company

Video of the Day: The Gesualdo Six perform 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen'

Classical Music News

Friday, December 1, 2023

| Gramophone

The Renaissance carol is the first of our festive Videos of the Day in the run up to Christmas

A third of musicians experience poor mental health

Monday, November 27, 2023

| Opera Now

Results from the first musicians' census are in

Stéphane Degout on recording Brahms's song cycle 'La Belle Maguelone'

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Friday, December 15, 2023

| Gramophone

Stéphane Degout reflects on his new live recording of Brahms's 'La Belle Maguelone'

Video of the Day: St Luke's Chamber Ensemble perform 'Sleigh Magic'

Classical Music News

Friday, December 22, 2023

| Gramophone

The new work features on new album of festive chamber pieces by composer Karen LeFrak

Bruckner on Record

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

| Gramophone

Richard Osborne traces the development across a century of the composer’s music on record, highlighting some of the milestones in sound and style

Detlev Glanert introduces his new opera: The Jewess of Toledo

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Opera Now

A world premiere at Dresden’s Semperoper from Detlev Glanert exposes the detailed collaborations of this dedicated storyteller. Here he reveals the inspirations behind The Jewess of Toledo

Bruckner's Symphony No 5, an introduction by Christian Thielemann

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Christian Thielemann discusses this accessible work which exudes a positive energy

Detlev Glanert: Die Jüdin von Toledo at Semperoper Dresden | Live Review

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

| Opera Now

A world premiere from German composer Detlev Glanert lights up Dresden's Semperoper

Puccini: La bohéme at Royal Opera House | Live Review

Friday, February 9, 2024

| Opera Now

'I will stick my neck out and say that soprano Yaritza Véliz will become a star'

Decca Classics signs mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina

Friday, January 26, 2024

| Gramophone

Decca Classics announces exclusive new signing with Aigul Akhmetshina

Video of the Day: Ruby Hughes & Manchester Collective perform Mahler

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

| Gramophone

Celebrating the soprano's new album 'End of my Days' in collaboration with Manchester Collective

Video of the Day: Weinberg's alluringly turbulent 'Toccata'

Classical Music News

Friday, February 2, 2024

| Gramophone

Trio con Brio Copenhagen perform the 20th century master's great Piano Trio Op 24

A Winged Woman (Rory McCleery)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Entirely restores one’s faith in the future of concerted vocal music

One to Watch: Jan Čmejla

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Jed Distler is bowled over by the musical empathy and strong personality of Jan Čmejla, a young Czech pianist who is making waves on both sides of the Atlantic

‘It’s possible to have performed a piece too much, to have played it to the point of unconscious routine’ | Kenneth Hamilton column

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

In a new column for International Piano, the pianist, writer and musicologist Kenneth Hamilton reflects on a throwaway remark from a fellow pianist and writer, the late Charles Rosen, and asks: can we sometimes play ‘too well’?

Rebecca Evans interview: 'We have to be sure that this art form continues'

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Opera Now

The renowned Welsh soprano speaks about her current role in Welsh National Opera's production of Così fan tutte, as well as her work mentoring the next generation of young singers

Wellness at Welsh National Opera

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Meeting April Heade, the producer of Welsh National Opera’s successful wellness programme, which uses the power of singing to support individuals with chronic health conditions

Mendelssohn: Songs without Words – selection. Alkan: La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer (Igor Levit)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Levit brings rare nobility and intensity to 14 of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, his individualised selection spanning a period from 1829 to 1844

Jane Irwin named Head of Vocal Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

| Opera Now

International soprano heads the vocal department of the Glasgow-based music college

St John's Voices to be axed

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The Cambridge college-based choir is to be abolished, with director of music Graham Walker losing his post

Walden Moore's legacy at Trinity-on-the-Green

Friday, May 10, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Jonathan Ambrosino reviews the substantial legacy of Walden Moore, who this year retires after 40 years of service at the church of Trinity-on-the-Green, New Haven, Connecticut

'I want to allow women to see themselves on an opera stage in an honest and dignified way' - composer Emily Pedersen on writing Screenshot