Cowbridge Music Festival is proud to unveil plans for its 2024 Young Artist Programme, which showcases the remarkable talents of Wales' emerging musicians. This year's Young Ensembles will be the Cardiff-based Bute Wind Quintet, and RWCMD graduates Quartet Draig. Speaking about the programme, Festival Co-Artistic Director Rosalind

Introducing Chromatica Orchestra I am told of a new orchestra, and the press release is below. I hope to report on the Batttersea concert (the Barber Violin Concerto is heard far too little os this is a rare chance ...) Classical music welcomes a vibrant new addition with Chromatica Orchestra, which

PROM 52 Bizet Carmen from Glyndebourne. Cast; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Anja Bihlmaier (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 29.08.2024 Production:  Director – Diane Paulusi  RAH semi-staging – Adam Torrence  Cast:  Carmen – Rihan Chaieb  Don José – Evan LeRoy Johnson  Micaëla – Janai Brugger  Escamillo – Łukasz Goliński My last two Carmens

The music of English composer Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) has been featured several times on Classical Explorer: Opalescence: Piano and Chamber Music of Ruth Gipps; her Clarinet Concert on a cracker of a disc from Robert Plane, Reawakened; and songs on Delphian - this post includes a link to performance of

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 a stunningly beautiful Creation (it is sung in German, so properly, Schöpfung). The city of Dresden is a jewel in Germany's crown, so full of rich music and projects (witness the ongoing authentic-instrument Ring with Nagano and the scholarship around that, all based in that city)

Sometimes described as Japan's leading composer, Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955) s a composer whose scores, while Modernist, exude beauty. The Naxos series of his works is significant: it has been over a decade since I reviewed a disc of his music (the previous one was on Neos, and