LSO Futures; Seong-Jin Cho Artist Portrait. Seong-Jin Cho (piano); London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conducto). Barbican Hall, London, 20.11.2025 Omri Kochavi gilufim (2024/25, LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Commission, World Premiere Sasha Scott Sly (2024/25, LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Commission, World Premiere Donghoon Shin Piano Concerto (2025,

Previously, Classical Explorer has featured the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: we saw them at Wigmore Hall in Mozart and Tchaikovsky, then looked at the first volume of Tchaikovsky Quartets here. This new disc, Terra Memoria, certainly comes with an arresting promo video: the music is from the Saariaho, her Terra Memoria,

Each year, the vocal group The Sixteen releases a new album on the CORO label to accompany the choir’s nationwide Choral Pilgrimage tour, which sees them visit over 20 locations across the span of 7 months, which began on Monday 17 March at Croydon Minster. Here's the

Beethoven NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 3pm, 19.01.2025 (CC)  String Quartets: No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18/4 (1799/1800); No. 9 in C, Op. 59/3, Razumovsky’ (1806)  The NOVO Quartet of Denmark won the 77th Concours de Genève; I was lucky enough to be present

Following on from my report on the European premiere of Zou Ye's Symphony Kūkai the other day, this pos presents another aspect of that composer's art: film music. The Goddess (神女, Shénnǚ) is a film that premiered in Shanghai on December 7, 1934, telling the story

This is Volume Six of Somm's Bruckner series; we looked at Volume One here. This contains the monumental Eighth Symphony. If thee is one orchestra the seems perfect for Bruckne, with its rich tradition, its creamy brass, its lush strings and its individualised woodwind, it is the Bavarian

This disc showcases Jascha Heifetz at the very height of his powers

Brahms, Mozart Axelle Fanyo (soprano); Agnieszka Rehlis  (mezzo); Werner Güra  (tenor);Guilhem Worms (bass); Chœur Orféon Donostiara; Le Cercle de l'Harmonie / Jérémie Rhorer, conductor. Philharmonie, Paris, 4.11.2025 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 (1869) Mozart Requiem, K 626 (1791, completed Süssmayr) Jérémie Rhorer and his Le Cercle

We have met John Luther Adams previously on Classical Explorer via his extraodinary Become Ocean (2013: the BBC Symphony Orchestra live at the Barbican under Dalia Stasevska). Elsewhere, on the Fanfare Archive, you can find my review of the Callithumpian (you read that right) Consort's performance on New