One Night, Two Concerts: The OSM and Rafael Payare Sergio Tiempo (piano); James Ehnes (violin); Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare (conductor). Maison symphonique, Montréal, Canada, 630pm and 815pm, 12.08.2022 American Rhapsody: From Folklore to Legend (630 pm): Jacques Hétu Légendes. Op. 76 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Márquez

Peter Moore will appear centre stage at the BBC Proms at The Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 16th August 2022, performing George Walker’s Trombone Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, this will be followed by a high-profile tour of Takemitsu’s Fantasma Cantos II with Sir Simon Rattle and

We are rejoning Adrian Butterfield, Sarah McMahon and Silas Wollston for the final stretch of Cleclair's Op. 3 Violin Sonatas: we covered the first stretch (Nos. 1-3) in this post. Perhaps that post is worth clicking on as I give what I hope to be useful background to leclair and

Lerici Music Festival: Schubert, Schumann Christan Blackshaw (piano). Teatro All’aperto della Rotonda Vassallo, Lerici, Italy, 05.08.2022 (CC) Schubert Four Impromptus, D 899 / Op. 90 Schumann Fantasie in C, Op. 17 Encores: Schumann Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, Träumerei Schubert   Moment Musical in F minor, D 780 / Op.

Smyth The Wreckers (semi-staged, sung in French) Cast; The Glyndebourne Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, 24.07.2022 Cast: Pasko – Philip Horst Avis – Lauren Fagan Thurza – Karis Tucker Marc – Rodrigo Porras Garulo Jacquet – Marta Fontanals-Sommons Laurent – James Rutherford Harvey – Donovan Singletary Tallan – Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts Production:

This is the famous Visconti production of Verdi's Don Carlo, performed in its Itlaian five-act version (so including the first act set in  the forest of Fontainebleu that sets up the love between Carlo and Queen Elisabetta). Thsi is a four act version, ane Abbado famously recorded teh five-act French

The Jette Parker Young Artists at 20 Soloists; Elaine Kidd (presenter); Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Antonio Pappano, Michael Papadopoulos, Edo Frenkel. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 23.07.2022 (CC) Director: Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol Lighting Designer: Allan Ramsay Fight Director: Rich Gittins Massenet: Manon, Act

Any release by Víkingur Oláfsson is a cause for celebration. Here on Classical Explorer, we have already covered three releases by the Icelandis pianist: Refllections, a disc of Debussy and Rameau, and a disc of Mozart and his Contemporaries. On release day, Friday October 7, it will be a pleasure

Verdi Atilla (concert performance). Soloists; Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,Covent Garden / Spreanza Scappucci. Royal Opera House, London, 19.07.2022 Atilla – Ildar Abdrazakov Uldino – Egor Zhuravskii Odabella – Maria José Siri Ezio – Simon Keenlyside Foresto – Stefan Pop Leone – Alexander Köpeczi Lighting Direction – Matt Mulberry Verdi’s “lyric drama

Not a single  overlap, but two new discs of Haydn PIano Trios, both with much to recommend them. Haydn's Piano Trios mark a couple of transitions in music history - from harpsichord to pianoforte, and the emergence of what we now know as sonata-allegro form. The Naxos disc begins with

The recent revival of Keith Warner’s Otello at Covent Garden occasioned a look around the DVDs/Blurays available, and a lighting upon Steven Langridge’s production of Otello; remember one of our first posts on Classical Explorer was Otello, also: Pappano on Sony, with Jonas Kaufmann in the title

Herheim is never going to please everyone, but he never fails to stimulate!

Lucky indeed the person who comes to Beethoven’s Second Symphony in this performance; the Dean, too, is magnificent