Kate Lindsey and Heidi Stober weave vocal magic in the latest Covent Garden revival of Humperdinck's box of delights.
Mario Venzago and Steven Isserlis share an unusual programme of Kabalevsky and Schubert at the Victoria Concert Hall.
With an assist from soloist Kirill Gerstein, Alan Gilbert holds the audience rapt in his inaugural appearance with the Czech ...
When encountering young artists for the first time, you often hear stories of multigenerational musical families. It’s not uncommon to learn that a piano prodigy’s first teacher was her grandfather, ...
Remarkably, Hespèrion XXI is in its fiftieth year, with founder Jordi Savall now into his eighties, but on the basis of this Wigmore Hall outing, you wouldn’t have known. In an expertly curated ...
Before he first collaborated with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as a guest conductor in October 2014, Jonathan Nott had spent nearly all of his professional life working in the German-speaking ...
Those with more morose dispositions, suffering under the hail of saccharine bullets of Father Christmas, cheerful elves and gravity-defying reindeer, may celebrate the adoption of La bohème as a ...
Count Keyserling’s attempt to cure his insomnia found itself strangely mirrored by Sandrin’s own experience of the music. “In 2019 I had to go in for surgery, an operation which I had to be awake for.
“It is difficult in no common degree to write anew concerning The Messiah,”1 said the music writer Henry F Chorley in 1859. The piece was, of course, 117 years old at the time, and there has only been ...