Aziz Shokhakimov's continuing success with the Strasbourg orchestra is exemplified in this recording. Good timing, too, given the Ravel celebrations this year. Recently, we covered a live performance in Strasbourg of Stravinsky's Rite could with are Debussy (Printemps) and a Mozart Piano Concerto. And here we

Edmund Meisel (arr. Morton) Battleship Potemkin Last year, Music in the Round celebrated 40 years, and included a performance of the film L'assassinat du duc de Guise with live music. This year upped the ante, with a realisation of Austrian-born Edmund Meisel's music (in an arrangement

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival (II) Mother Goose Ensemble 360. Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield, 18.05.2025 Ravel Mother Goose Suite (1908/11,arr. Farrington)  Farrenc Sextet in C minor, Op. 40 (1851/2)  Duruflé Prélude récitaif et variations Op. 3 (1928)  Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 (1842)  From

Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 (1843)  Mandy Friedrich (The Péri); Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor); Agata Schmidt (alto); Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone); Clara Guilon (the young girl); Victoire Bunel (the angel); Julien Clément (Gazna); Lancelot Lamotte (the young man); Rosana Ribeio (choreography); , accentuis; Insula / Laurence Equilbey. La Seine Musicale, Paris,

Editorial by Hana Gubenko Not rarely one hears Those above; the government, the media, the educated, the rich, the refugees, the powerful and powerless, the doctors, teachers, bankers, the unvaccinated, criminals, transgender and transphobes, gays, homophobes, godly, atheists…  That list might be infinite.   It is a certain Them who threatens

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

RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellowship recital: Brahms/Busoni, Schumann, Liszt/Busoni Thomas Kelly (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1pm, 13.05.2025 Brahms/Busoni Chorale Prélude, Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10  Schumann  Piano Sonata No. 1in F sharp minor, Op. 11  Liszt/Busoni  Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos,

I was lucky enough to attend the Guildhall Godlier Medal last Thursday May 8). The announcement of the winner from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a follows: Guildhall School of Music & Drama is thrilled to announce soprano Seohyun Go as the winner of this year’s

Handel’s last oratorio presents, amongst the composer’s catalogue of undeniable masterpieces, a masterwork of stunning stature. Not a note is misplaced in Jephtha: long though it is (more of that later), everything is perfectly proportioned, drama and music hand-in-hand. Thomas Morell’s text has a huge part to

A fabulous combination of works, beautifully performed

Janáček The Excursions of Mr Brouček (‘Výlety páně Broučkovy’; concert performance). Cast; Tenebrae; London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Barbican Hall, 04.05.2025 Cast:  Broućek - Peter Hoare  Mazal/Blankytný/Petřík - Aleš Briscein  Malinka/Etherea/Kunka - Lucy Crowe  Sacristan/Svatopluk/Lunobor/Domšīk - Gyula Orendt  Wüfl/

* Julia Wolfe appointed the Orchestra’s first Composer in Residence, with four works featured in the season, including a newly commissioned symphonic arrangement of her Pulitzer-winning Anthracite Fields * Focus on opera, with Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier to direct a concert performance of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, and

A valuable document ... Elgarians will want this