Cancellation of Tetbury Music Festival 2020.
Statement from the Chairman and Festival Director of Tetbury Music FestivalIt is with great regret that the Trustees of the Tetbury Music Festival announce the cancellation of this year’s Tetbury Music Festival, planned for October 2020. The continuing impact of the...
Grange Park Opera Lost & Found.
Was Lost, Now Found Grange Park Opera, Surrey, launches new summer season June/July 2020 15 performances free to view online Superstars Sir Bryn Terfel and Sir Simon Keenlyside give concertsfrom their homes in Wales and tenor Joseph Calleja singsfrom the island of...
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra launches summer activities for all ages.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues to support community music-makingthroughout the South West during lockdown The BSO’s Schools’ Concerts provide a highlight of the summer termfor thousands of pupils on the South Coast each year ©BSO Kids set sail on musical...
Time flies in the company of The Navy Lark and Dad’s Army.
We’re all aware of the phrase Tempus fugit ... I have just been listening to the Classic Comedy Hour on BBC Radio 4 Extra (8 a.m. for me, with other start-times available during any one day), in this case The Navy Lark and then Dad’s Army, the latter adapted for the...
Once the coast is clear of Covid-19 restrictions, Herbert Blomstedt, now 92, has announced that he will record the Schubert Symphonies, and those by Berwald, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Something to really look forward to. I assume the Schubert and Berwald Symphony projects will be for Accentus Music, for which Blomstedt has already recorded Beethoven's Nine (Leipzig) and Mahler's Ninth (Bamberg).
JUNE 1, TODAY’S THE DAY … Some good news: WORLD CLASS MUSICIANS RETURN TO THE CONCERT HALL: Live Classical Music to Return to BBC Radio 3 and UK homes through 20 Wigmore Hall concerts.
Originally published on May 12.Leading Musicians including Mitsuko Uchida, Mark Padmore, Iestyn Davies to Perform and Broadcast Live to the NationBBC Radio 3 to broadcast first live classical broadcasts since lockdown with concert series from Wigmore Hall every...
Neglected British Composers.
It has been suggested that I invite readers to nominate British Composers whom are unjustly neglected, and in so doing suggest a work of theirs that best represents them, whether recorded or not. I’ll start the ball rolling and give you my choice, Sir Lennox Berkeley....
Sad news: French soprano Mady Mesplé has died at the age of 89.
Sergiu Celibidache conducts Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony, Munich 1983.
You have probably spotted that I am a huge devotee of this great conductor (1912-96). He has his detractors but even those 'against' him admire his way with Bruckner, so here is the Fourth Symphony, from Munich in 1983. It lasts nearly eighty minutes (and I am aware...