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Respighi - Church Windows. Rossini - Stabat mater.

Federica Lombardi - soprano; Chiara Amarù  - mezzo; Dave Monaco - tenor; Nicola Ulivieri - bass; Epiphoni Consort; BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra; Nil Venditti - conductor.

Royal Albert Hall, London, 7 August 2026

An Italian-Turkish conductor, Nil Venditti, led the BBC Symphony ...


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Media announcement of interest below. A heads up that Sunday's post will be a review of tonight's (Friday's) Prom.

Leeds Song has announced its 2026–27 concert season, bringing together some of Britain’s most distinguished artists alongside an exciting new generation of singers and pianists, in a programme that celebrates the richness, intimacy and storytelling ...


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Music which sits on the edge of sound: Sinuoso Tiempo (2019-21) is a cycle for string quartet by Javier Quislant (born 1964), performed here by members of Klangforum Wien: Annette Bok and Guido Jäch-Micko, violins, Dimitrios Polisoidis, viola, and Leo Morello, cello.

Javier Quislant (Garcia) was born in Bilbao in 1984, and studied with Agustin Charles ni...


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Erna Berger, Irmgard Seefried, Julius Patzak, Alexander Kipnis - what an exalted line-up! As it was for Fritz Busch's performance of Haydn's Die Schöpfung in 1934 (oratorio excerpts bookend the release).

This is a celebration of Fritz Busch (1890-1951) - fitting, perhaps, after our Glyndebourne coverage this year: Busch's performances there began with a ...


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All four concertos here are World Premiere recordings.

Christoph Nichelmann (1717-62) was at the Thomasschule in Leipzig; his life took hm to Berlin via Hamburg (the hub which held Telemann and the theorist Johann Matheson). He had beef, as we might say today, with C. P. E. Bach, and yet it is C.P.E. who is brought to mind in thsi concerto in this excellent perfo...


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