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Thursday, June 15, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Ponsford’s is playing of the highest integrity.

Orchestral Anthems (Elgar, Finzi, Dyson, Howells)

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The 42 undergraduate and postgraduate members of Merton College Choir and 18 girl choristers rise with aplomb to the challenge of matching the superb Britten Sinfonia

Love & Light

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

The repertoire is contemplative in mood, with medieval chants and liturgical texts a constant theme, beautifully expressed by their ethereal, beautifully blended voices

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel at Opera Holland Park

Friday, July 7, 2023

| Opera Now

Engaging singing within a production that required greater depth and substance

Rachmaninov: Four Piano Concertos; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op 43 (Yuja Wang)

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

| International Piano

If there is any pianist who can command the necessary delicacy, power and underlying emotional fervour it is Yuja Wang, united to perfection with Gustavo Dudamel

Conservatoires need cultural change to fix their misconduct crisis | Leah Broad

Opinion

Thursday, October 19, 2023

| Opera Now

Scrapping one-to-one tuition might be an easy solution, but it’s not the right solution

Puccini: Tosca at Grange Park Opera | Live Review

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

| Opera Now

Stephen Medcalf's production of Puccini's operatic thriller had much to celebrate

Mid Wales Opera misses vital funding from the Arts Council of Wales

Monday, October 2, 2023

| Opera Now

Funding for opera in Wales sees a decrease in funding of over £600,000

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (Víkingur Ólafsson)

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

| International Piano

A cultured, elevated release, not to be missed

Garsington Opera announces 2024 season

Thursday, October 26, 2023

| Opera Now

The Oxfordshire-based company will stage five operas and opens its new facility, Garsington Studios

Javier Perianes on Granados's Goyescas: ‘He wrote nothing else on this brutal level of technical complexity’

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

| International Piano

Javier Perianes has recorded one of the pinnacles of Spanish piano music, Granados’s Goyescas. He talks to Jessica Duchen about playing this evocative and demanding music and following in the footsteps of Alicia de Larrocha

The Green Season at Opera North | Live Review

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

| Opera Now

A roundup of the three operas comprising Opera North's 'Green Season' designed by Leslie Travers

Handel: Ariodante at Paris Opera | Live Review

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

| Opera Now

Robert Carsen's interpretation of Handel's opera seria

International Piano: introducing the January/February 2024 issue, featuring Behzod Abduraimov

Friday, December 22, 2023

| International Piano

Behzod Abduraimov: championing his Uzbek roots | Krystian Zimerman: making a statement with Szymanowski

Judith Weir opera to open 2024 Aldeburgh Festival

Thursday, January 11, 2024

| Opera Now

Celebrating her 70th birthday in 2024, Dame Judith Weir's opera Blond Eckbert marks the start of the Suffolk new music festival

Sancte Paule Apostole: Music from The Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Psalms and hymns are performed with as much care as the less familiar works

Arvo Pärt: Essential Choral Works (Paul Hillier)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

No one who loves Pärt’s music will want to be without this set

Folks’ Music (Paul Hillier)

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

They reflect the meticulously-punctuated theme of that edition of the festival: the idea that new music in the western classical tradition belongs to us all

John Eliot Gardiner aiming to return 'later in the year'

Thursday, February 8, 2024

| Opera Now

Conductor of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra extends his time away following assaulting a singer last summer

Matthew Whiteside on his new guide to self-releasing music for composers

Friday, February 23, 2024

| Choir and Organ

The point of this book isn’t to force people to self-release their music. It’s to empower people with the information

Verdi: Macbeth at Mid Wales Opera | Live Review

Monday, March 11, 2024

| Opera Now

'This is an opera that stands or falls more than most on the quality of the two main principals, and in Bouton and the Welsh soprano Mari Wyn Williams who sang Lady Macbeth, MWO struck gold'

Saint-Saëns: Six études pour piano, Op 52 (Bärenreiter)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Bärenreiter has done Saint-Säens proud with this release

‘Natural Connection – Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World’ (Leon McCawley)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Obviously there’s room in the market for compilations like this, but Leon McCawley’s artistry surely deserves a better vehicle

Oil giants vs opera: creating The Shell Trial

Saturday, March 16, 2024

| Opera Now

The World Premiere of Ellen Reid's new opera 'The Shell Trial' at Dutch National Opera takes on questions and emotions surrounding climate responsibility

Antonio Pappano: 10 key performances at the Royal Opera House