Les Éléments

Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (2): Les Éléments Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml (shawm / director). 9 pm, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025  Air  Anonymous O che nuovo miracoio. Chaconne. The dark is my delight  Estebao da Brita Lucis Creator

Live Performance

Itinéraire Baroque 2: Handel and his Contemporaries

A perfect way to start to a very musical day

Baroque

Itinéraire baroque returns: Clérambault Cantatas

Itinéraire Baroque en Péigord returns!

More Tchaikovsky: The Dudok's first volume of quartets

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is interesting firstly in that they boast beautiful vintage instruments and they perform Tchaikovsky with unwound gut brings nd period bows. It is the continuation of a journey begun in 2020 when the Dudoks used gut strings to explore the complete string quartets of Brahms for

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra: new season

The following press release has been received from the Montevedi Choir & Orchestra: Following two landmark performances at the Edinburgh International Festival – including John Tavener’s monumental The Veil of the Temple and a programme of Bach, Handel and Purcell at Usher Hall (also to be performed at Aldeburgh and

Here We Are: Manchester Camerata's 5-day celebration

MANCHESTER CAMERATA ANNOUNCES: HERE WE ARE A FIVE DAY CELEBRATION OF MUSIC IN ALL 10 BOROUGHS OF GREATER MANCHESTER Between Wednesday 1 October and Sunday 5 October, Manchester Camerata is on the move, bringing its internationally acclaimed musicians to perform free concerts and pop-up performances in unexpected public spaces across

The Piano Music of George Walker

This is the first of two volumes of George Walker’s complete piano works; Alexandre Dossin is the beautifully sensitive pianist. Dossin has previously appeared on ax's as par of their complete Liszt piano music, in Kabalevsky, and in Bernstein. While the centrepiece of this disc, Volume One,

Opera

Friedrich von Flotow: Concertos & Overtures

Von Flotow is clearly much more than 'just' 'Martha' ... Give this a go!

Schubert

Schubert from Dresden

Janowski's first purely orchestral Schubert recording

Live Performance

"Beethoven's Fifth": the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Proms

it was the Saint-Saëns and, especially, the Capperauld that made the trip to South Kensington worthwhile

French Night at the Proms!

PROMS: French Night with the Orchestre National de France Randall Goosby (violin); Orchestre National de France / Cristian Măcelaru (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.07.2025 Ravel  Rapsodie espagnole (1895, 1907/08)  Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in G, Op. 8 (1776/7)  Charlotte Sohy Danse mystique, Op

Live Performance

Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park

This is a must: Jennifer France is simply superb

Chinese

The China-UK Cultural Exchange Programme at St Martin-in-the-Fields

The Guangdong players are fine ambassadors of Chinese culture

Piano

Hamamatsu Winner Manami Suzuki's debut disc

An auspicious recording debut from the Hamamatsu winner

Preview: Edinburgh Festival 2025

Following on from our coverage of the Britten Pears 2025/26 season yesterday, here are details of this year's Edinburgh Festival: The Edinburgh International Festival opens on 1 August and features 1700 artists from 42 countries across a curated programme of music, theatre, dance and opera * Click here

News

Britten Pears Arts announces its 2026/26 Season

An exciting season looms!

Schubert

Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini in Schubert

For all of the insights - particularly from the keyboard side of things - this remains an interesting but imperfect Müllerin

Charpentier, Missa Assumpta est Maria (& La Fête du Reuil)

We have covered a number of concerts and releases of music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) on Classical Explorer: one overlap is that this concert of the Leçons de Ténèbres at Wigmore Hall began with the sinfonia from the present Missa Assumpta est Maria; we also covered a performance of the

Tchaikovsky

Thaxted Festival 2025: Wild Arts presents "Eugene Onegin"

Wild Arts seems to flourish on challenge; its Onegin counts as a notable success

Brahms

Chiaroscuro Quartet and Cédric Tiberghien at Wigmore Hall

A remarkable evening at Wigmore Hall

Mendelssohn

Shani shines in Mendelssohn

it is in the Third Symphony and the Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage that the rue value of this disc lies

Donizetti

Donizetti Songs #2: Nicola Alaimo joins Carlo Rizzi

Another fabulous, and fabulously useful, release in the Donizetti Song Project

Haydn

The Chiaroscuro Quartet return in Haydn

The Chiaroscuro Quartet can, it seems, do no wrong

Live Performance

Morceaux en forme de poire: Hommage à Erik Satie from Ensemble Ricercata

A fascinating concert, beautifully presented and performed

Mäkelä's Berlioz

In terms of career trajectory, thee is no equalling Klaus Mäkelä. He collects principal positions with the World's major orchestras like others collect stamps. And yet, should we believe the hype? This release suggest not; and there have been warning signs for previous concerts, too ... There is such