FEATURE: 2026 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Royal Philharmonic Society Awards is a culmination of the year’s classical music talents, ranging from single performers, large-scale compositions and everything in between.
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REVIEW: Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Borrani & Beethoven
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s performances of “Borrani & Beethoven” were on Thursday 5th March at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh and on Friday 6th March at City Halls, Glasgow.
REVIEW:Brodksy Quartet and Sir Willard White
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…
REVIEW: The RSNO’s Viennese Gala
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.
REVIEW: Glyndeborne’s Messiah at Royal Albert Hall
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.
REVIEW: Fantasia Orchestra
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…
REVIEW: Marking Time
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…
REVIEW: Seong-Jin Cho: Artist Portrait
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…
REVIEW: Music at Oxford: 90 years of Arvo Part – Merton College Choir and Britten Sinfonia
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…
REVIEW: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.1 and The Rite of Spring
Reading Time: 2 minutesJohn Wilson Conducts The Academy Symphony Orchestra with immense youthfulness