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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAll of the pieces were performed by the BBC Philharmonic, directed by the Finnish violinist and Chief Conductor John Storgårds.
Reading Time: 3 minutes"For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967–1970" at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall was a lively, affectionate evening celebratng one of the greatest songbooks in popular music.
Reading Time: 4 minutesStephen Rinker, originally from Ilford, London, is a BBC sound recording engineer. We sat down with Stephen to discuss his career path from an early fascination with recording music to working with the BBC Philharmonic.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fourth and, unfortunately, final concert in Fantasia Orchestra's residency at Smith Square Hall brought the series to a close in exactly the way it deserved: thoughtful, imaginative and completely true to the orchestra's identity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmbrace a bold and colourful sound world as Manchester Collective bring to life work by titans in contemporary experimental music.