The music of England’s ‘pastoral period’ featured in this latest concert in the Barbican’s Fragile Earth series, and given its composers’ fascination with folk music, it ...
London Philharmonic Orchestra review – Vladimir Jurowski delivers an impeccable performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 ...
We know the issues, agree with the premise – and polemic marginally dressed as ‘art’ is only going to induce boredom, ...
The London Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert paired Mozart’s final piano concerto with Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, offering an evening more reflective than rhetorical. While the performance took ...
The combination of the six singers of The Gesualdo Six with director Bill Barclay’s take on the scandalous life of the ...
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers under Martyn Brabbins are joined by Finchley Children’s Music Group, National Youth Voices and soprano Else Torp for works by Aaron Copland and Julia Wolfe ...
While West Green House Opera may operate on a smaller scale than Glyndebourne, Garsington or the Granges, it actually offers ...
Simon Rattle and the LSO deliver a taut account of Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair, marked by gripping clarity and nervous propulsion, anchored by Marlis Petersen’s commanding Emilia Marty. Under ...
Putting aside elves on shelves, Rudolph, Santa’s unhealthy diet and other 20 th century customs, Christmas has long had folklore and traditions associated with it that, while not found in the biblical ...