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Director Todd Field's new film TÁR features a pianist turned composer, conductor and writer caught up in intense power struggles. The role is played by Cate Blanchett, who talks to Jonathon Brown

Leading ladies: gender bias in piano competitions

Features

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

Almost any piano teacher will say that the majority of their students are female, so where are all the women when it comes to handing out the glittering prizes at major music competitions?

Nelson Freire – Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

'Every one of these recordings is like gold dust'

Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

This is beautiful music, wonderfully recorded

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

Delightful discoveries abound. Look no further than the opening track, Blue Blazes by Joseph Tunbridge, one of seven world premiere recordings

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Features

Thursday, March 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

‘The past is another country’ - and so was early music when the Tallis Scholars first assembled to perform it 50 years ago. Founder-director Peter Phillips talks to Clare Stevens about how performing techniques have been honed in the intervening decades, and how Renaissance music has enjoyed its own rebirth

Frederick Swann: Obituary

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

His archetypal performance was self-assured, lustrous, multi-hued, inventive, and perceptive

Work in progress: J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Paul Hale explores projects from the workshop of J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Photos courtesy of the organ builder

Encounters: Lucy Hollins

Features

Sunday, April 2, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Conductor, animateur and presenter Lucy Hollins on her musical passions

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

News

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Contemporary music also features in the festival’s programme, with a concert of arrangements for organ and percussion of pieces by rock musician Frank Zappa

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review

Review

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Ella Marchment's staging of the UK premiere of Libby Larsen's opera was 'exhaustingly alive'

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

Features

Monday, August 21, 2023

| International Piano

Sulamita Aronovsky fled the Soviet Union in 1971 and built a formidable reputation as a teacher in London. Michael Church offers first-hand recollections of this indefatigable and inspirational musician

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

Features

Thursday, July 27, 2023

| International Piano

Charles Timbrell explores the history on record of one of Chopin’s late masterpieces and recommends some listening

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

Opinion

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

| Opera Now

Life beyond the country house – one summer weekend in the broadsheets crystallises the stark crossroads facing British opera

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

Review

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Opera Now

A meaningfully staged production of Wagner's three act opera at Grange Park, conducted by Stephen Barlow

Queer inheritance, politics and opera – writing 'Bermondsey, 1983'

Opinion

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| Opera Now

Homophobia surrounded the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. Robert Reid Allan's true-story opera looks at this landmark in queer history and questions how far we have still to go

Puccini: Tosca at Bergen International Festival | Live Review

Review

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

| Opera Now

There was plenty of drama in the concert performance of Tosca by Bergen National Opera and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Interstellar at 10

News

Thursday, September 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The tenth anniversary of the Christopher Nolan science fiction film has prompted a world tour of organ recitals.

Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory collaborates on dementia-friendly opera

News

Monday, August 28, 2023

| Opera Now

Edward Lambert's opera The Last Siren premiers at the University of West London, created with the safety of people living with dementia in mind

Repertoire guide: Villa-Lobos’s Rudepoêma

Features

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| International Piano

Richard Whitehouse listens to the available recordings of an electrifyingly virtuosic piano work composed for Arthur Rubinstein and recommends some essential listening

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Massenet: Werther at Royal Opera House | Live Review

Mozart: The Piano Sonatas on Mozart’s fortepiano (Robert Levin)

Rachmaninov & Brahms (Yuja Wang, Andreas Ottensamer, Gautier Capuçon)

Debussy: Piano Duets (Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier)

Arens: One Hand Piano 2 - Another 40 Pieces for Left or Right (Edition Breitkopf 9409)

Cate Blanchett interview: ‘I learnt the piano as a girl and played with great fervour’

Leading ladies: gender bias in piano competitions

Nelson Freire – Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019

Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars: another country

Frederick Swann: Obituary

Work in progress: J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw

Encounters: Lucy Hollins

Orgel Festival Holland 2023 dedicated to ‘European music in times of war and peace’

Libby Larsen: Barnum's Bird at the Royal College of Music | Live Review

Influential piano teacher Sulamita Aronovsky remembered: ‘It was all about character, and she might only work very intensely on two bars of a piece’

Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie: a guide to the best recordings

'If we want people of all backgrounds to engage with opera, it needs to happen in places fully accessible by public transport' | Prompter – Andrew Mellor

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

Queer inheritance, politics and opera – writing 'Bermondsey, 1983'

Puccini: Tosca at Bergen International Festival | Live Review

Interstellar at 10

Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory collaborates on dementia-friendly opera

Repertoire guide: Villa-Lobos’s Rudepoêma

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