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Part of the Choir & Organ New Music partnership scheme, composer Conrad Asman has commissioned a new text from Rory Stewart for this double-choir work ...
This week we explore new releases from the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds, Dover Quartet, Gilbert Rowland, Abel Selaocoe and Can Çakmur ...
The Recording of the Year Award went to Simon Rattle's account of Mahler's Tenth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic, while other Awards went to the Emerson Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin and Barbara B ...
Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Ola Gjeilo's 'The Rose' by newly formed London-based professional choir Meridian. The performance is from ‘Serenity’ in LIVE From London Summer ’25 filmed ...
Bach orchestral transcriptions by Andrew Davis, Bacewicz ‘Orchestral Works, Vol 2’, Ginastera's Three String Quartets, and more ...
Arvo Pärt: celebrating the composer at 90; Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford record songs of passion; Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: the top versions ...
Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford’s new album of Dowland and Purcell with the Jupiter ensemble is very much a ‘family’ affair, as they tell Mark Seow ...
Today's Video of the Day is a performance of 'Shall we gather at the River' by VOCES8, VOCES8 Scholars, VOCES8 Alumni and the BBC Singers arranged by Blake Morgan. This video marks the first day of ...
Could a composer ask for a more sincere and committed advocate than conductor Andrew Manze? As he releases a new recording with his beloved RLPO, he chats with Andrew Mellor about his many and varied ...
As Arvo Pärt enters his tenth decade, Andrew Mellor examines how the worlds of contemporary music, recording, performance practice and geopolitics continue to respond to this most pivotal of figures ...
It’s a staggering achievement, helped partly by Solbrekken’s having written two previous Flagstad books and being an expert in Second World War Norwegian history, as well as being a playwright' ...