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Friday, February 23, 2024

| Gramophone

This month: Janáček's Katya Kabanova from the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle, Handel's Theodora by Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Marc-André Hamelin plays his own piano music

Celebrating Mozart: Concerto Budapest

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Ahead of a special livestreaming partnership with Gramophone, Jack Pepper introduces one of Hungary’s rising star orchestras…

Bruckner’s Symphonies: the leading conductors of Bruckner’s music explore the symphonies

Monday, February 19, 2024

| Gramophone

To mark the composer’s 200th anniversary we talked to ten of today’s leading conductors of his music about one symphony each. The result is a fascinating insight into of one of the most significant of all symphonic cycles

Michael Spyres and Christophe Rousset reflect on their new album: In the Shadows

Blogs

Friday, March 1, 2024

| Gramophone

Spyres and Rousset introduce In the Shadows

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

There is a wonderful holistic unity, an organic authenticity about the way the exercises are presented

Introducing the Spring 2024 issue of Choir & Organ

Monday, February 26, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Norwich Cathedral: an organ restored to its full magnificence | Stanford Centenary: surveying the forgotten choral masterpieces 100 years since the composer's death

Cadogan Hall celebrates 20th anniversary

Friday, February 2, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Cadogan Hall to host renowned choral ensembles in 20th anniversary celebration

Lidiya Yankovskaya: ‘It was often people around my own age who were telling me that women shouldn’t conduct. I got hate mail’

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Whether conducting the English National Opera, championing refugee musicians or supporting young composers, Russian-American Lidiya Yankovskaya is mindful of the profound connections to her heritage, cultural identity and artistic conscience

Live Review: Le Piano Symphonique (Lucerne)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

In a very lively acoustic the Steinway piano was too brittle for this music but Fray coaxed it into subtlety between the moments of frenzy

London’s Newest Attraction: Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

| Gramophone

In the summer of 2025, musicians will unite in the city for one of the most wide-ranging, comprehensive and star-studded festivals of Shostakovich’s music ever convened

Monteverdi Festival 2024 – where everything was born and is now reborn

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

The Monteverdi Festival blends tradition and innovation, celebrating Monteverdi, his operas, his extraordinary music and his legacy in the vibrant city of Cremona

Exploring Schumann's chamber music

Blogs

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

| Gramophone

Pianist Théo Fouchenneret introduces two new recordings in the Schumann Collection: ‘Works With Wind Instruments’ and ‘Trios and Quartet For Piano and Strings (live)’

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 29, ‘Hammerklavier’, Op 106. Chopin: Piano Sonata No 2, Op 35 (Beatrice Rana)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

These two performances are definitely worth hearing though they won’t be to all tastes

Poulenc: Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Cipelli understands the disarming simplicity typifying each piece in the Villageoises suite

Ireland, You’re My Home

Friday, May 10, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Olivier Awards recognises achievements in London Opera

Monday, April 15, 2024

| Opera Now

Royal Opera House holds a royal flush at the award ceremony

Why do some musicians move us while others do not?

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

Charivari compares and contrasts two pianistic greats who are sadly no longer with us, and wonders why he is moved by some performers and not by others

Classic Violin Olympus Preselection Phase Nears Halfway Mark; Four Contestants Through to Grand Finale

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| Gramophone

With two of the six preliminary contests already behind us, the inaugural Classic Violin Olympus International Competition continues to gather steam

Review - Bronsart and Henselt Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Wee is the man for the moment, no obstacle insurmountable’

ENO announces new season

Thursday, May 16, 2024

| Gramophone

Two new productions appear alongside revivals and semi-staged performances at the London Coliseum

ABO launches major campaign