Reading Time: 2 minutes‘A triumphant balance of playfulness and prowess’ Sir Willard White’s rich bass tones can lend gravitas to even the most lighthearted music. Combined with the Brodsky Quartet’s deft, ludic playing, the pairing is formidable. This concert is…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe RSNO believe that music can enrich lives and once again brought their Viennese Gala tour to The Beacon, delighting audiences with a fresh new theme. This year’s programme, centred on technological advancement and discovery, proved both imaginative and entertaining.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTransferred for one night only from Glyndebourne’s autumn season to the Royal Albert Hall, this Messiah under Aidan Oliver and the Glyndebourne Sinfonia (leader Richard Milone), with the Glyndebourne Chorus and soloists Soraya Mafi, Claire Barnett-Jones, James Way and James Platt, offered a strikingly intimate reading of Handel’s oratorio in a resolutely non-intimate space.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFantasia Orchestra is carving out something special with this residency at Smith Square Hall. If you have not yet heard them, you should. It feels like one of those treasures quietly hiding in plain sight. It was…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMarking Time delivers three fiercely distinct visions of how sound and movement bend, stretch, and disrupt our sense of time. Earlier this year, I saw Outlander at Kings Place and was fascinated by the musical chemistry between…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of exciting voices and masterful performances LSO Future, presented at the grandiose Barbican Hall, is a concert that presents a bold and imaginative vision for contemporary music. As part of the K-Music Festival 2025 and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis wasn’t just a birthday concert. It was a powerful tribute, beautifully performed, thoughtfully curated, and deeply moving Walking into the Sheldonian Theatre on Tuesday 11 November, I knew little about Arvo Pärt beyond the fact that…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJohn Wilson Conducts The Academy Symphony Orchestra with immense youthfulness
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Tom Richardson, one of the composers of a new soundtrack created to be played alongside Battleship Potemkin. Written in 2017 for Plymouth’s eclectic The Pit Orchestra, the company will revive this landmark work this December with a special film-with-live-orchestra performance in celebration of the centenary of what is considered one of the greatest films ever created, Battleship Potemkin.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a young pianist, Julius Asal already feels remarkably mature and poised for his age Together with pianist Julius Asal, the orchestra of Academy of St Martin in the Fields opened the evening with Maurice Ravel’s Le…