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Kirill Karabits to present a day of Ukrainian music at London’s Southbank Centre

Monday, May 13, 2024

| Gramophone

The Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra will showcase Voices from the East to celebrate the end of his 15-year tenure

Mishka Rushdie Momen interview: ‘We’ve inherited a lot culturally from the ideas of the Reformation, including a sort of paradoxical individualism’

Features

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

Mishka Rushdie Momen has recorded an album of works by composers working in the shadow of the Reformation, including Bull, Byrd and Gibbons. She tells Jessica Duchen about the enduring appeal of this music and why she plays it on a modern piano

Magdalene Ho: a pianist to watch

Features

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

Jed Distler is impressed by Magdalene Ho, a pianist of enormous promise who won the 2023 Clara Haskil Competition, and suggests some listening

Review - Mozart: ‘Complete Sonatas, Vols 5 & 6’ (Orli Shaham)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Shaham’s concluding Rondeau defines lightness and crispness, replete with humorously timed grace notes’

Review - Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces (Andrey Gugnin)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Andrey Gugnin is a true poet of the keyboard and his commitment shines through in every bar’

Review - Mischa Levitzki: ‘The Complete HMV Recordings’

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘His repertoire centres on the Romantics and in one flamboyant example after another he grabs you by the ears’

Review - ‘Passage secret’ (Ludmila Berlinskaya, Arthur Ancelle)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘The pianists manage to fuse finesse and heartiness in ways that make their performances sound fresh’

Review - Bartók: ‘Piano Music, Volume 9’ (Goran Filipec)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Intended as exercises to nurture piano technique in every aspect, these create a rather disjointed impression heard collectively’

Review - ‘Russian Variations’ (Piers Lane)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘His playing throughout this album is of the highest order, his pianism unfussy, subtle and effortlessly efficient’

Cellist Laura van der Heijden on her debut concerto release

Podcasts

Friday, May 31, 2024

| Gramophone

The cellist combines two 20th-century British concertos with a brand-new work

‘If you want to know how to move an audience, I can show you how to do that’ - Gweneth Ann Rand interview

Features

Thursday, June 6, 2024

| Opera Now

Soprano Gweneth Ann Rand collaborates with young artists in three concerts for Suffolk's Aldeburgh Festival. She shares with Opera Now her insight into vulnerability, pedagogy and the importance of community

Writing for opera: following four young composers

Features

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

| Opera Now

The first of three blogs following JAM on the Marsh's composer residency in which four composers write operas based on the life of queer artist and activist, Derek Jarman

'It takes years to build an opera company from the ground up but only a short time to dismantle one': Q&A with composer Des Oliver

Features

Friday, June 7, 2024

| Opera Now

Opera Now Editor, Hattie Butterworth speaks to Des Oliver about his opera 'Windrush, The Journey' which is currently touring with Pegasus Opera Company

Q&A with composer, Gabriela Ortiz

Features

Monday, June 10, 2024

| Gramophone

We spoke to the composer about her latest album, 'Revolución Diamantina' and her collaborations with Gustavo Dudamel

National Opera Studio announces new Young Artists

News

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

| Opera Now

The opera training centre’s programme has a new 2024/25 cohort

Pianists at the Proms

News

Monday, June 10, 2024

| International Piano

The programme for this year’s BBC Proms has been announced and there are several high-profile piano performances to look out for

Guildhall Session Orchestra announces summer programme

News

Monday, June 17, 2024

| Gramophone

The ensemble, comprised of Guildhall alumni will present three performances with renowned artists and collaborators

Bruckner’s Symphony No 7: inside the score, with Manfred Honeck

Features

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

Conductor Manfred Honeck talks to David Patrick Stearns about unravelling the meaning behind Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony

Review - Michi X3 S2

Review

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and analogue sections have made this integrated amplifier a real high-end bargain