Chromatica’s new principal conductor is a likeable lead with an endearing conducting style. Permission granted to demand more….
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Review – NDR PHilharmonie Hannover at Cadogan Hall
The NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover played Brahms 2 at Cadogan Hall like a one-take studio recording: nothing left to chance, yet…
Podcast 242: Gavin Higgins and Mark Simpson introduce Higgins’ new clarinet concerto
Gavin Higgins: It’s a clarinet concerto. It’s just a very big clarinet concerto….
Composer Max Richter secures Ivors Innovation Award 2026
Commercial-savvy Richter’s Ivors Award for ingenuity and impact meets the brief…
George Fenton (1949 – 2026)
A great man with a phenomenal craft for compression and the ability to summon a moment in a moment for…
Review – ‘Nature’s Dance’ (Cameron Biles-Liddell) – BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Cameron Biles-Liddell’s new harp concerto Nature’s Dance: an entertaining and polished affair….
Review – Academy of Ancient Music with Amanda Forsthye
Spoiler: Amanda Forsythe is amazing. Why is she not performing more in more places outside of the US? One of the…
Britten Pears Arts partners with music hubs to host activities at the O’Hare Music Centre
How provision for some young Suffolk musicians has developed, and the role Britten Pears Arts’ new O’Hare Music Centre is…
Preview – King’s Place Origins Unwrapped 2027
The ever-reliable King’s Place have 2027 all mapped out with an enticingly eclectic mix of programmes that soothes the troubled…
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243: Roderick Williams, Ben Parry & Garth Bardsley – Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast
- 243: Roderick Williams, Ben Parry & Garth Bardsley
- 242: Gavin Higgins & Mark Simpson
- 241: Nigel Short on 25 years of Tenebrae
- 240: Fran Wilson's 'Facing the Music'
- 239: Eleanor Alberga & Thomas Bowes
- 238: Jessica Walker
- 237: Three Choirs 2026 in Gloucester with composer Grace Evangeline-Mason
- 236: Guy Johnston on Britten’s Cello Symphony
- 235: Pianist Beatrice Nicholas
- 234: Laura Bowler and the Cheltenham Music Festival's Composer Academy
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