REVIEW: Cuban Baroque
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is something intriguing and contradictory about Cuban Baroque, presented by Carlos Acosta’s Acosta Danza at Sadler’s Wells.
Category classical
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Toby Chadd
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Toby Chadd, the Artistic Director of Sinfonia Smith Square. Sinfonia Smith Square is the coming together of two much-loved organisations: Southbank Sinfonia and St John’s Smith Square.
Stella Chen and ASMF: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Stella Chen’s bright, elegant timbre is luminous and heart-shaking” Opening ASMF’s 2026/27 London season, violinist Stella Chen joined the orchestra for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 and Caroline Shaw’s _Punctum, with Mozart’s Symphony No. 39…
Review: Brahms’ Requiem
Reading Time: 2 minutesA triumphant celebration of life in spite of grief Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem, Op. 45, prefaced by Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 24, graced the Bridgewater Hall this weekend. The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – conducted by Anja Bihlmaier…
REVIEW: Philharmonia’s Season Opening Concert: Santtu and Sol Gabetta
Reading Time: 2 minutesOrchestral concerts are often exciting and the high standard of the Philharmonia is a treat - they did not disappoint at the opening concert for the season: Santtu and Sol Gabetta.
REVIEW: Brothers in Harmony, Where Classics Meet New Voices
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is not every day that one can be in the presence of a composer while their piece is being played. In this instance, though, the composer was not just present, he was performing his own work as part of the orchestra.
REVIEW: Concerts of the Future @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesConcerts of the Future, the VR experience by House of Oz, The Sonicrats and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, invited us, the audience, even with zero musical knowledge, to be a part of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
REVIEW: Mahler’s Song of the Earth / Das Lied von der Erde
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe BBC Philharmonic Orchestra gives a grand and varied evening of classical and romantic music, culminating in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
REVIEW: Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley
Reading Time: 2 minutesFour Mondays running now, Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's has now become a standing appointment for me. Classical Mondays sits a little oddly against the club's usual late-night jazz pulse but never fails to shine.
Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley have been playing together since 2017, almost a decade of creating an authentic and smooth dynamic. They opened with Mozart's Horn Quintet in E-flat, reworked for their line-up which almost became a quiet tribute, as we learnt Mozart himself once lodged across Firth Street during his London years.
REVIEW: Mahler’s First By Heart
Reading Time: 3 minutesMahler’s therapy session, staged first and then played flawlessly from memory A cuckoo call, and a timpanist who fluffed his cue in front of several thousand people – Aurora Orchestra’s Mahler’s First By Heart had all the…