A Dream Comes True: Aroha Junior Choir UK Tour (2-11 July 2018)
October-November 2017 How on earth am I going to get the funds to go to a music competition in Wales,...
SALZBURG’S FLUTE IS NOT WITHOUT MAGIC
Last night I attended the first performance of my week in Salzburg during the conclusion of the Summer Festival. It...
The Astonishing George Benjamin: A Composer for our Age
I made it my business to explore the music of my contemporary George Benjamin in recent months, and was wondrously struck by the wealth and richness of his creative output, most especially in the outpouring of recent works. He is...
Ticciati’s Last Bow as Principal Conductor: SCO Performs Brahms
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Robin Ticciati Johannes Brahms: Symphonies 1-4 18 and 19 August 2018 Usher Hall, Edinburgh Edinburgh International Festival Listening...
Voices of India
The first edition of the national singing competition, Voices of India, will take place at the National Centre for Performing...
Master Works
Next month, the Symphony Orchestra of India will begin its Autumn 2018 Season with compositions from some of the greatest masters. Sandipan Das breaks down the programme. Prokofiev (1891-1953) Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (1944) Prokofiev wrote this during...
Rattle’s Debut as LSO’s Music Director on the EIF Stage
London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances op. 72 Leoš...
LA FEDELTÀ PREMIATA (THE GIFT OF FIDELITY) AT THE ROH, MUMBAI
Those of us present at Mumbai’s century-old Opera House between 1-3 August were lucky enough to be treated to a really...