Category: Recitals/Concerts

In this instance dictionaries do not leave room for ambiguity: a revolution is a sudden, fundamental change. As a branding name, it has been much prized by all kinds of…

This concert was dubbed a “musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna”, with sacred and secular offerings spanning six decades. Finding works to programme alongside Haydn’s late ‘Nelson Mass’, or, if you…

An Italian-Turkish conductor, Nil Venditti, led the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra alongside the vocal Epiphoni Consort in an all-Italian programme for this Prom (I see numbers seem to have…

Nature and music are so interconnected – from Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky to name just three composers – that this Prom, From the Alps to the Auvergne, took three markedly different…

Bruckner, Sibelius, John Adams: you only need to hear a snatch or two of their writing to recognise the composer in question. In the case of Adams, the label of…

When that final cut-off point arrives, when the Great Reaper pays us all the inevitable visit, are we really any the wiser as to the next step, what follows, what…

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: Beethoven’s Ninth at the Proms. A regular annual fixture, for a long time it occupied the final Friday before the Last Night,…

Festivities began no more obviously than with Copland’s three-minute Fanfare for the Common Man, one of ten declamatory works prompted by Eugene Goosens. His request to score the piece for brass…

At the beginning of July, Wolf Trap Opera continued its Salon Series with a recital containing two very different presentations. Mezzo-soprano Sophia Maekawa began the program with a set of…