Stay evaluations
⚫ Christmas Megamix: Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s ultimate gig in its Christmas Estates Tour 2025
⚫ Letter from Florida: Opera Up-Shut – Unveiling the Dramatic Course of with Paul Curran at Palm Seashore Opera
⚫ The intense psychological strategy weakened the dramaturgy: Handel’s Ariodante returns to Covent Backyard in new manufacturing by Jetske Mijnssen
⚫ Past St Cecilia: Purcell’s large-scale ode alongside excellent anthems by his contemporaries Humfrey & Blow from The English Live performance & Harry Bicket at Wigmore Corridor
⚫ ‘The Lord gave the phrase’: communicability to the fore in Handel’s Messiah from Academy of Historical Music & Laurence Cummings
⚫ From Eisenach to Venice to London to Scotland: Rachel Podger & Associates in an engagingly eclectic programme in Highgate
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⚫ Our month-to-month publication
November on Planet Hugill
extra Wexford, Opera North on tour, irritating Janáček, trendy Handel, youthful Monteverdi
Document evaluations
⚫ Having fun with it for its personal sake: there may be a lot we do not learn about Seventeenth-century Exeter organist John Lugge however on this new disc William Whitehead leaves us engaged & intrigued
⚫ Highly effective & intense: the music of Elena Firsova & Dmitri Smirnov displays their friendship with Rudersdal Chamber Gamers but additionally hyperlinks again to Schnittke, Gubaidulina & Denisov
⚫ Challenges & rewards: Tredegar City Band celebrates the brass music of Robin Stevens with Brass Odyssey
⚫ Delizie, contente: The Bellot Ensemble discover love in all its kinds in Seventeenth century Italy for Cupid’s Floor Bass on FHR
⚫ An actual radio opera: Claire Sales space as a pianist labouring beneath the absurdity of life in Stalin’s Russia in Joe Cutler’s Sonata for Damaged Fingers
⚫ Poetic exploration: Ensemble Près de votre oreille in an enticing exploration of chamber & vocal music by William Lawes
⚫ The opposite brother: music by Galileo Galilei’s youthful brother on this pretty new EP
⚫ A brand new solo album from British pianist, Alexander Ullman: a totally fulfilling and entertaining number of music by Edvard Grieg
