| Blog URL: | http://hugill.blogspot.com/ |
| Blog Tags: | Classical Music, Performance, Contemporary Music, Composer, CD reviews, London, Writing Music |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Location: | London |
Classical Music Blog from London based singer and classical music composer, Robert Hugill; News, Views and opera reviews, CD reviews musings on contemporary music and writing new music. | |
on Jun 30, 2024
Donizetti: The Elixir of Love - James Atkinson - Wild Arts 2023 (Photo: Lucy J Toms)We humans, alone on earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then to destroy them. But we have one more thing – an ability, perhaps unique among the living...
on Jun 29, 2024
Handel: Giulio Cesare - Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Louise Alder - Glyndebourne, 2024 (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith)Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Louise Alder, Beth Taylor, Svetlina Stoyanova, Cameron Shahbazi, director: David Mc...
on Jun 29, 2024
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire - Claire Booth & Nash Ensemble at Aldeburgh Festival, 2024 (Photo: Marcus Roth (c) Britten Pears Arts)Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn have previous when it comes to focusing on composers whose songs...
on Jun 28, 2024
Northern Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Sara Porter, 2022)The theme of Mozart on Tour threads its way through the Northern Chamber Orchestra's 2024/25 season of concerts in Macclesfield (largely but not exclusively at The King's School). But it isn't just...
on Jun 27, 2024
How are the mighty fallen: Choral music by Giovanni Bononcini; Rowan Pierce, Esther Lay, Helen Charlston, Guy Cutting, Giles Underwood, Choir of Queen's College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Owen Rees; Signum Classics25 June 2024Known as a rival...
on Jun 27, 2024
If you fancy an Autumn weekend in Norway, then the Engegård Quartet is offering a deep dive into the chamber music and songs of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn.The Engegård Quartet [whom we heard recently at Conway Hall, see my review] has a tradi...
on Jun 26, 2024
BBC and Young Sounds UK Exchange programme in 2022 (Photo: BBC)The five BBC orchestras - the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - are joining up wi...
