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Thursday, February 29, 2024

| Opera Now

Théâtre du Châtelet breathes new life into Mozart's opera

Zlata Chochieva: the music of my life

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Zlata Chochieva reflects on the importance of personality in making music speak, from Michelangeli’s Mozart to Horowitz live and unedited

‘La Danse’ (Martin James Bartlett)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

One of the most playful sprints through Ravel’s La valse I’ve heard

Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 18, K456; No 21, K467 (Jonathan Fournel)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Fournel’s assured pianism belies the fact that this release marks his recorded concerto debut

Edinburgh International Festival announces 2024 programme

Thursday, March 7, 2024

| Gramophone

The 'world's Festival City' to host performances by world-class musicians

Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy: safeguarding the future of Italian opera

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy was launched in 2015 in Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. We explore the impact of the maestro on the next generation of opera artists

'It’s the human stories that bring music into the modern age' - Creating Classics Explained

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

| Opera Now

Music enthusiast Ben Levy shares the journey to creating animated videos of iconic classical music stories, and now hitting over three million views on YouTube

Lila Palmer: ‘We do not have to choose between innovation and excellence – and we must not’

Opinion

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

The librettist Lila Palmer on setting the right direction for the development of opera in the 21st century

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde at Opéra de Lille | Live Review

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

| Opera Now

Tiago Rodrigues presents his first opera production with Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'

Verdi: La Traviata at Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet | Live Review

Thursday, March 7, 2024

| Opera Now

'Ivan Cherednichenko and the orchestra a gave a robust reading of the score with a rich-sounding string section at its heart topped by some colourful woodwind solos'

Bartók: Bagatelles. Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book 2. Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50 (Piotr Anderszewski)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

This is an extraordinary album; hardly for those of a nervous disposition or for late-night listening

Bodleian Library acquires Bach cantata manuscript

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

| Choir and Organ

JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025

Video of the Day: 'Awakening' for Harp

Classical Music News

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

| Gramophone

The brand new work by composer Daniel Temkin is brought to life through both sound and movement

Inside Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata with Beatrice Rana

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Beatrice Rana joins Harriet Smith to talk about finding a path through Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata

Sir Andrew Davis: 10 Essential Recordings

Monday, April 22, 2024

| Gramophone

A selection of just a few of Sir Andrew Davis's finest moments on record, featuring music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Walton and Tippett

London Handel Festival 2024 | Live Review

Friday, April 19, 2024

| Opera Now

The 2024's performances of Handel's Brockes Passion and Aci by the River demonstrated the 'imaginative smaller-scale, eccentric and original stagings of lesser known pieces'

The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne: ‘I put all my best jokes upfront and try to find even better ones for later. I want to send the audience home euphoric’

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Director of Glyndebourne’s new production of The Merry Widow, Cal McCrystal talks about the sometimes not-so-subtle art of making opera funny

Council of St John’s College defends the disbanding of its choir

Monday, April 8, 2024

| Choir and Organ

An open letter and petition has been issued in reaction to the council's decision

James Whitbourn’s final work to be performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York

Friday, April 12, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Partially orchestrated by John Rutter, the Requiem will have its premiere on April 13

Ben Maton – The Salisbury Organist: ‘Never lose sight of the organist!’