Shaw, Barber, Copland Renaud Capuçon (violin); Philharmonia Orchestra / Ryan Bancroft. Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.10.2023 Caroline Shaw  Entr’acte (2011, arr. string orchestra 2014)  Barber    Violin Concerto (1939)  Copland    Symphony No. 3 (1944-46)  One might easily consider this as meat and two veg, on paper, with Caroline Shaw’

Just in from PR2 Klassik; for further details go to the Hamburg State Opera's website! Salome premiere with Kent Nagano in Hamburg on ARTE Concert On Sunday, 29 October 2023 at 6 p.m. (CET), General Music Director Kent Nagano will conduct the premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Salome at

The Southbank Centre and its family of Resident Orchestras has announced its Classical Music Spring/Summer 2024 programme. Featuring a vast array of music, from ambitious new works by world-class artists, ensembles and orchestras to established work from the canon, the season spotlights undiscovered voices and works as well as

Azrieli Prize Winners at Cadogan Hall: Habibi, Harlap, Ueda Jessika Kenney (vocalist); Pouyan Biglar (star); , Sharon Azrieli (sopranos); Naomi Sato (shō); Zhongxi Wu (suona / sheng); Georgia Mann (presenter); Philharmonia Orchestra / Steven Mercurio (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 16.10.2023  Iman Habibi - Shāhīn-nāmeh (with Jessika Kenneyi and Pouyan Biglar) Aharon

Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Bruch (no. 1) Violin Concertos on one disc ... what more could you want? That question becomes more pertinent still when the soloist is one Nathan Milstein. It is down to the excellent record company specialising in historical re-releases, Biddulph to provide this dream disc for colonists. Milstein

Debussy, Tansy Davies, Adès, Chou Wen Chung, Penderecki, Messiaen. Members of the London Sinfonietta, with Runfeng Lin (violin). Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China, 09.10.2023 Debussy Syrinx   Tansy Davies Grind Show (unplugged)   Adès Court Studies  Chou Wen Chung String Quartet No. 2, ‘Zhauhun’: first movement  Penderecki Clarinet Quintet

Recordings here from the First International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, held in Warsaw from September 2nd-24th, 2018. One pianist - the excellent Naruhiko Kawaguchi, who won second prize - four instruments. And two composers: the disc opens with a Polonaise in D-Minor by a contemporary of Chopin's, Karol Kurpiński

We met Anakronos early on in Classical Explorer’s history with a post on The Red Book of Ossory. The first song morphs from music that is earlier than early through impreovisatio that sounds like Indian tabla music before almost a folksy element comes across. Inspired by a story from

A few short weeks ago, I reported on Concerto Budapest's concert at G-Live in Guildford. Their discs appear on the German Tacet label, an audophle edition released on SACD with the option for a 5.1 version (Real Surround Sound). The full name of the orchestra is Concerto Budapest Symphony

Booklet annotator Piero Rattalino makes an impassioned and eminently justifiable case for the early piano works of Debussy; Korean pianist Ilia Kim echoes him in sound. Some of these pieces aretoo often seen as curios, reserved for illlustrated talks, or recitals in piano festivals. But they are far more than

Probably most famous for being a murderer (and 'getting away with it' - he murdered his wife for infedelity, a crime de coeur), the music of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) is notable for its harmonic adventurousness and daring.. In terms of the progression of his madigals, the fourth book (for five

The three-disc set of Lully's ‘tragédie en musique” in a Prologue and Five Acts Thesée performed by Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset will be released on Friday 13th (!) October, 2023. Here, we present a preview (including the fruits of an interview with Rousset), as I will be away covering

What a great coupling this is: Britten's elemental “Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes (a work much in the music press headlines at the moment because of English National Opera's successful staging of the full opera), and Elgar's beautiful, expressive, substantive Violin Concerto. Here’s a taster of the disc: From

It's time for the next chapter of Orchestra of the Swan: a carefully curated mixtape, Entranced. A review will follow nearer release, but for the moment there is plenty to enjoy below. Orchestra of the Swan are riding the crest of a great musical adventure, as they explore the transformative

The Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival has been in existence for over a decade now - this is its 12th incarnation - and offers music making at the highest standards in beautiful surroundings. Beautiful in and out, one might say: the venues inside Hatfield House are almost as lovely as