The 2015 Gramophone Classical Music Awards will be presented tomorrow evening (September 17) in London, drawing the stars of the classical music world and a host of record labels from …
Countdown to the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2015… Read More »
For tens of thousands of youngsters the humble recorder is their first introduction to making music. And for many of their parents – in the shrill, early days at least …
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Paul Dyer’s passion undimmed Read More »
On Monday 21 September, the Tallis Scholars will perform their 2000th concert when they sing works by Taverner, Sheppard, Byrd and Gabriel Jackson at St John’s, Smith Square in London …
Six of the best – the Tallis Scholars in numbers Read More »
The ingredients for Covent Garden’s new Orphee et Eurydice make the mind boggle. Direction is shared between a choreographer (the Israeli Hofesh Shechter) and a house director (John Fulljames), with …
For all the wonders of the web, it “threatens habits of deeper inquiry,” Ian Leslie argues in “Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It.” This …
The Concert Hall as Refuge in a Restless, Web-Driven World Read More »
Identifying the wood of the surviving historical wire-strung harps of Ireland and Highland Scotland has long been an important goal of researchers and instrument-builders. In 1969, microscopic examination of the …
Reidentifying the wood of the Queen Mary and Lamont harps Read More »
Since its beginnings in 1990, Quantum Theatre has earned and honed a reputation for taking audiences to challenging and unfamiliar locations — a chilly warehouse in a defunct brewery, a …
Quantum, Chatham Baroque, Attack Theatre team up for Shakespeare opera Read More »
The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, led by director Robert Butts, will be celebrating the approach of its 20th anniversary in style with a performance of a groundbreaking one-act 18th-century …
You go to a gallery. The work is strange. You don’t know the artist. You aren’t familiar with the style. The pictures all look the same. Flat and dull. They …
The people who brought early music to the fore in the 1960s and 70s pioneered a new way of doing things. Historical performance on what we used to call “authentic” …