Colin Clarke

Angel of Peace: The Sixteen

Each year, the vocal group The Sixteen releases a new album on the CORO label to accompany the choir’s nationwide Choral Pilgrimage tour, which sees them visit over 20 locations across the span of 7 months, which began on Monday 17 March at Croydon Minster. Here's the

The RCM Benjamin Britten Felllowship Recital: Thomas Kelly at Wigmore Hall

RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellowship recital: Brahms/Busoni, Schumann, Liszt/Busoni Thomas Kelly (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1pm, 13.05.2025 Brahms/Busoni Chorale Prélude, Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10  Schumann  Piano Sonata No. 1in F sharp minor, Op. 11  Liszt/Busoni  Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos,

Seohyun Go wins the Guildhall Gold Medal

I was lucky enough to attend the Guildhall Godlier Medal last Thursday May 8). The announcement of the winner from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a follows: Guildhall School of Music & Drama is thrilled to announce soprano Seohyun Go as the winner of this year’s

Solo Piano

Music at St Mary's, Perivale: Nikita Lukinov

A fine recital

Chopn

Alon Kariv plays Chopin at Cadogan Hall

It is difficult to think of a better way of spending a sunny Sunday afternoon

Handel's Jephtha at the Barbican

Handel’s last oratorio presents, amongst the composer’s catalogue of undeniable masterpieces, a masterwork of stunning stature. Not a note is misplaced in Jephtha: long though it is (more of that later), everything is perfectly proportioned, drama and music hand-in-hand. Thomas Morell’s text has a huge part to

Bach's Easter Oratorio revisited: Frans Brüggen's radiant reading

A fabulous combination of works, beautifully performed

Live Performance

Quatuor Danel at Wigmore Hall: Weinberg & Shostakovich

I came for the Weinberg, and was not disappointed in the slightest

Mr Brouček's Barbican adventures

Janáček The Excursions of Mr Brouček (‘Výlety páně Broučkovy’; concert performance). Cast; Tenebrae; London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Barbican Hall, 04.05.2025 Cast:  Broućek - Peter Hoare  Mazal/Blankytný/Petřík - Aleš Briscein  Malinka/Etherea/Kunka - Lucy Crowe  Sacristan/Svatopluk/Lunobor/Domšīk - Gyula Orendt  Wüfl/

Interview

Pianist Alon Kariv in Interview: Chopin's First Concerto, and more

A star in the ascendant: pianist Alon Kariv in interview

Classical

The Overtures of Joseph Martin Kraus

A superb discovery

The BBC Philharmonic announces its 2025/26 season

* Julia Wolfe appointed the Orchestra’s first Composer in Residence, with four works featured in the season, including a newly commissioned symphonic arrangement of her Pulitzer-winning Anthracite Fields * Focus on opera, with Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier to direct a concert performance of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, and

Elgar from America, Volume 1 on SOMM

A valuable document ... Elgarians will want this

Puccini

Omer Meir Wellber's miraculous Butterfly

One of the finest “butterflies” available

The Rite of Spring in Strasbourg

What does one couple with Stravinsky’s momentous Rite?

Live Performance

Grand Concert pour les Aixois: the Verbier Festival CO in Aix en Provence

A most fascinating programme, brilliantly delivered

Live Performance

Bach @ Aix: Christophe Rousset & Les Talens Lyriques

There was much to admire here

Richard Strauss

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at Aix

A memorable concert: a rare and valuable opportunity to hear the Richard Strauss Violin Concerto

Live Performance

Génération @ Aix: A French evening

There was huge talent on stage on this particular evening

Charpentier, Leçons de Ténèbres from Les Arts Florissants at Wigmore Hall

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Leçons de Ténèbres Les Arts Florissants ./William Christie (director / organ) with Ilja Aksionov (tenor) and Padraic Rowan (bass-baritone). Wigmoe Hall, 16.04.2025 Missa Assumpta est Maria, H 11 (?1669): Prélude.  Troisième leçon de Ténèbres du Mercedi Saint, H 141 (? 1690)  Premier répons après la première leçon du

Sibelius and Barber Violin Concertos

I didn't have this on my bingo card for a potential disc of the year, but here we are. Here's a promo video: And, for all Renud Capuçon’s star status, it is Daniel Harding whose star shines brightest here. Together, Capuçon and Harding set the

More Lyatoshynsky Symphonies 4 & 5

After our recent trip to Waterloo for Lyatoshynsky Symphony No, 3, with the London Philarmonic under Vladimir Jurowski, I thought it was time to dig little deeper into the music of this composer, and on cpo, there is a recording of Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5: the Cracow Philharmonic is

Piano

MAESTRA: Piano Concertos by Julia Perry and Doreen Carwithen

Samantha Ege features here in works by Julia Perry and Doreen Carwithen: a stimulating pairing. The name of Julia Perry was new to me. This fascinating composer was born in Kentucky, USA, moved to Ohio, and trained at Westminster Choir College in New Jersey, as well as Tanglewood, Juilliard, and

Live Performance

Prokofiev's rarely-heard Second Symphony in London

This was a truly momentous performance of Prokofiev 2

Live Performance

Héloïse Werner and friends at Wigmore Hall

A remarkable evening