Notes from a three-day trip to the mountainside music festival, now in its 26th year
It was all about the detail. A blistering Prokofiev 2 from violinst Vadim Repin.
Nicolas Hodges appears at the BBC Proms 2019 in a performance of Messiaen’s Des Canyon aux étoiles.
Waterperry Opera has a valuable USP and deserves to go from strength to strength Waterperry Opera Festival is underway this weekend. The four-day event based in and around the Regency grandeur of Waterperry House and Gardens in rural Oxfordshire, has built on its highly successful inaugural season in 2018 and has returned hoping its bigger…
Documenting my experience of the BBC Proms 2019 in my own sweet time.
Joshua Bell’s performance of Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, the warm sound of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Proms’ next big test.
A deceptive concert programme more compelling on radio than TV. On-screen presentation had a gratifyingly retrospective feel with some satsifying innovations and an engaging live feel.
I’m part of the problem. I hope to God I don’t think that by the end of the Proms this year.
Matthew Barley’s recording of John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil was released on the Signum label in June 2019. It’s available via Spotify.
Classical music gets a bashing once again.