Category: Review
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Review – Key Changes: Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music
Key Changes confounds expectations — which, given what Radio 3 needs right now, is exactly what it needed to make.
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News – Thoroughly Good announces new partnership
Thoroughly Good announces a major new partnership, a new print title, and a subscription offer designed to bring classical music to new audiences.
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Review – Gounod’s Fast at Opéra Royal, Versailles
Strong voices and competent performances carried a production that appeared not to question the tradition it so readily relied upon.
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Review – Franco Fagioli sings ‘The Last Castrato’ with Orchestra de L’Opera Royale and Stefan Plewniak
A hurried event in which the vocalist led proceedings, the orchestra responded, and director followed with one too many theatrical flourishes.
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Review – Insula Orchestra, Accentus & Monteverdi Choir perform Bach’s B Minor Mass
Equilbey’s first public encounter with Bach was brought to life with care and precision.
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RPS Awards 2026: Classical is a sector that knows what it wants
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards were a stylish affair full of wit, polish and verve. Classical music as self-assured and defiant. There’s still work to be done, and a timely message for some to keep checking their spam folder.
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Edinburgh International Festival 2026: there’s more to this creative risk than meets the eye
The 2026 Edinburgh International Festival programme is bold, substantial, and confident. And it poses a big uncomfortable question.
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News – Classical Music Magazine to shut down
Mark Allen Group – the publishing house behind many of the UK’s trade and consumer publications in the classical music, opera and music education world – announced today that Classical Music Magazine is shutting down after publication of its Spring 2026 edition.
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An International Piano Competition. In Hastings.
Rachmaninov played in Hastings twice. What the Hastings International Piano Competition does that legacy is a more complicated question.
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Review – Ronnie Scott’s Classical All Stars, Upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s
Ronnie Scott’s Classical All Stars: classical music stripped of its safety net. Deliciously so.