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: 2 minutesOld friends, new tricks, and the flugelhorn as the unbilled third lead. Friends who have known each other from school make the best duos; Whitehead and Milne prove it within seconds of Gershwin’s Three Preludes. A cheeky…
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: 2 minutesAn unconventional string quartet, four cellos deep, going from Purcell to jazz without breaking a sweat! Upstairs at Ronnie’s is lit with warm sodium light and rows of chairs face the same direction, close enough to see…
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: 2 minutesAs an award-winning and critically acclaimed performer, Shanay Holmes’s debut solo concert in collaboration with Chris Poon and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra was bound to be mesmerising, but no one in the audience could have been prepared for the spell binding evening that unfurled.
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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery seat became the best seat through Aurora Orchestra's imaginative staging.