Category: Review
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Review – Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine at Sheffield Chamber Music Festival
How do we react when connection breaks down and our world disintegrates? We likely respond as though the world isn’t watching us.
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Review – Feldman & Beckett’s Words & Music at Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2026
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival have made a bold choice this year in programming works by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett. In doing so, they’ve demonstrated how well they know their audience too.
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Review – United Strings of Europe: Purcell Room, 9 May 2026
Guest reviewer Caroline Potter on United Strings of Europe’s Purcell Room debut — a programme exploring music, deafness, and what it means to listen.
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Review – Carice Singers at Kings Place: Steve Martland reconsidered
A Kings Place concert series dedicated to Steve Martland is challenging assumptions created by the aesthetic his promotion leaned on when the composer was alive.
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Review – Papillons at Southbank’s Multitudes
Papillons at Multitudes was multimedia production that mirrored the transformation of caterpillars to butterflies across three miniatures which over the course of 70 minutes saw a sonic metamorphosis of cellist Laura van der Heijden’s playing from amplified strings to electronic distortion. It kind of worked.
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Review – Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown perform Cameron Biles-Lidell and elgar at wigmore hall
Wigmore Hall Song Competition winner Beth Taylor and pianist Hamish Brown’s afternoon programme had the sea running right through it, and highlighted a composer’s name to follow.
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Preview – BBC Proms 2026 – 10 Recommended Concerts
10 recommended concerts from to see or listen to at the BBC Proms 2026.
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Preview – BBC Proms 2026 – A summer of superlatives awaits
A summer of superlatives awaits now that the BBC Proms season has been revealed.
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Review – Academy of Ancient Music’s The Chosen One at Milton Court
Academy of Ancient Music’s part-historiographical study, pinned to musical exploration, exposed the nearly always-overlooked route to JS Bach’s appointment as Thomaskantor, posing one delicious counterfactual question: what if Bach hadn’t got the job?
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Review – National Youth Orchestra play Hisiashi, Wagner and Prokofiev
NYO’s Spring Concert at the Festival Hall celebrated what this orchestra has become. The question now is what Principal Conductor Alpesh Chauhan will demand of it next.