Category: Review
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Review: The First Night of the BBC Proms 2024
A candid take on tepid performances, polished if shallow presentations, and the BBC’s determined strategy to build a new classical music audience and put Radio 3 at the heart of it.
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Review – Daniel Pioro plays Brahms Violin Sonatas at Aldeburgh Festival 2024
This is the stuff that gets bums on seats (and off them).
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Review – Blond Eckbert at Aldeburgh Festival 2024
A fast-paced opera complete with revelations and tragic consequences, Weir’s work was a fitting choice for the first day of the 75th Aldeburgh Festival.
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‘Beethoven Wars’: Beethoven meets Manga at La Seine Musicale
Rarely heard musical dramas by Beethoven meets Manga in a new multimedia space opera premiered by Insula Orchestra and Laurence Equilbey.
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Could long-form classical music be an antidote to our short-form content addiction?
Concluding the Ulster Orchestra’s 2023/24 season, Daniele Rustioni summons multiple forces in Mahler’s epic and ever-popular Symphony No. 2.
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Review – Fenella Humphreys ‘Prism’ on Rubicon
A captivating collection of pieces for solo violin capturing the spirit and determination of musicians in the early days of the 2020 UK lockdown
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Opinion – Navigating change in a resistant industry
CBSO’s experiments challenge classical music’s self-image, highlighting some of the industry’s resistance to change, amid the opportunities to connect with new audiences.
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Trust is key and power destroys it
Bottom line, if you want the profile, play the game. With everyone. Otherwise, eventually, no one will talk about you. At all.
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Review – Dresden Philharmonic and Maria loudenitch at Cadogan Hall
Conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky stripped everything right back creating a rich tapestry of textures and colours that revealed far more detail in the score than would normally be perceptible in larger venues.
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Review – Wynton Marsalis’s entertaining Trumpet Concerto makes for a captivating listen
Marsalis’s entertaining new work is exactly what classical needs right now