Gallery of Memories: Mary Bevan & Anna Tilbrook at the Oxford International Song Festival

There was a veritable feast of new music at this year’s Oxford International Song Festival, much of it commissioned by the Festival itself.  Gallery of Memories, a song cycle by…

Mary Bevan on superb form in Signum’s Visions Illuminées

If you think soprano Mary Bevan is associated only with Baroque repertoire, think again.  Yes, she’s recently wowed audiences in Handel’s Alcina at Covent Garden, and she’s about to embark…

In conversation with Mary Bevan

Operas sometimes seem like the proverbial London bus: you wait at the stop for ages and then three come along at once.  This year, the bus’s destination has been Alcina’s…

Handel: a debut solo album from countertenor Barnaby Smith

In August 2021, as part of VOCES8’s Live From London Summer 2021 Festival, countertenor Barnaby Smith, soprano Mary Bevan and the The Illyria Consort (led by violinist Bojan Čičić) presented…

Heartfelt: truth and directness from Roxanna Panufnik

This Signum Classics recording of a selection of Roxanna Panufnik’s chamber music, for varied vocal and instrumental forces, is titled Heartfelt – and it is indeed a generous programme, sincerely…