Sheffield Chamber Music Festival Tim Hochstrasser 26/05/2026“If you bake a cake, you don’t want to stuff your face with the whole lot, you want to share...
Wexford Festival Opera 2026 – A Preview Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2026This year is the 75th anniversary of Wexford Festival Opera. Â It will run for just over a fortnight, from Thursday,...
A St Luke Passion Tim Hochstrasser 06/04/2026St Luke’s Passion narrative has not received the same interest from composers as St Matthew or John. Nor has the...
16th Freedom from Torture Concert Tim Hochstrasser 18/03/2026The Doctors’ Orchestra is an amateur orchestra that brings medics together at regular intervals across the year in charitable causes;...
The Food of Love Tim Hochstrasser 18/02/2026To coincide with the St Valentine’s weekend Vache Baroque came to Fidelio Cafe with a Baroque tasting board of languishing...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
Manami Suzuki – debut London recital Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026Manami Suzuki comes to London as the first Japanese and the first female winner of the Hamamatsu International Piano Festival. ...
BBC Symphony Orchestra: From Hamlet to Joseph Phibbs Tim Hochstrasser 19/01/2026With two tone poems inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a freshly-minted cello concerto, and a rarely performed suite by Richard Strauss,...
Future Tones – Young Talent Concert Josi Steinfeld 08/11/202529th Made in Prague Festival Czechia is an amazing country, producing astonishing musicians and sportspeople. Jakub Hrůša from Brno is...
Bernstein & Copland Third Symphonies Tim Hochstrasser 16/09/2025Third Symphonies are often major and transformative works – think Beethoven’s Eroica or Mahler’s Third, in which an established composer...
