Recorded only five years since his graduation from Trinity Laban, this is an excellent debut CD from the not-yet-thirty-year-old James Newby, already with a string of prizes including the prestigious Kathleen…
Songs of Travel: James Platt and Lada Valešová
The second day of Oxford Lieder’s two-day festival, Winter into Spring, heralded the arrival of the season of rebirth and renewal. If the programme presented by bass James Platt and…
To the New World: the Carducci Quartet and VOCES8
VOCES8’s Live from London, Spring series continues to offer diverse delights. Recent performances by Apollo 5 and Stile Antico framed The Winter House – an interactive family concert created and…
Vauxhall London Presents – Classical Vauxhall: experience exciting classical talent streamed into your home this March
We cannot be together, but we can still stay connected through music! Classical Vauxhall 2021 Thursday 18th March – Fiachra Garvey & Navarra String QuartetFriday 19th March – Tom Poster and Elena…
Leeds Lieder announce Spring 2021 recitals presented from Leeds Town Hall
Leeds Lieder are delighted to welcome outstanding artists to Leeds this spring including Dame Sarah Connolly, Gerald Finley, Fatma Said, Kitty Whately, Julius Drake and Joseph Middleton who will perform…
Oxford Lieder: Winter into Spring – the changing seasons
The weather was fortuitous for Oxford Lieder’s live, online mini-festival, Winter into Spring. Across the UK, the blossom buds and nudging crocuses were bathed in warm sunshine, the thick dawn…
Purcell Royal Odes: music for royalty superbly fashioned by The King’s Consort
Robert King has been addressing the music of Henry Purcell for over thirty years, and his ground-breaking anthology of odes and welcome songs begun in 1988 brought fresh insights to…
A unique Das Lied from Karajan and a highly charged Salzburg Fifth
Herbert von Karajan started conducting Mahler in 1955 when he performed Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Those performances were given in the United States – Chicago and New York – and…
Alastair White’s ROBE: a ‘fashion-opera’
If Rousseau, Marx, Einstein, Lacan and Bill Gates were to collaborate on an opera, what would they create? Perhaps something not unlike ROBE by the Scottish composer and writer Alastair…