United Kingdom CBSO and CBSO Youth Orchestra: ‘Side by Side’: Joshua Weilerstein (conductor). Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 2.11.2025. (CP)
CBSO Youth Orchestra offers a remarkable tonic with Shostakovich Seventh Symphony
Clive Peacock
Oxford International Song Festival delivers a Monday of ‘Creativity Unlocked’ to live long in the memory
United Kingdom Various: Holywell Music Room and The Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford, 13.10.2025. (CP)
Chineke! Orchestra chooses Warwick Arts Centre to launch their tenth anniversary European tour
United Kingdom Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven, Wallen, Dawson: Tai Murray (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Chineke! Orchestra / Roderick Cox (conductor). Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 24.9.2025. (CP)
Baroque band Barokksolistene engages with Longborough’s refreshing new Dido and Aeneas
United Kingdom Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: Soloists, The Longborough Youth Chorus, Barokksolistene (musical director Bjarte Eike). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 29.7.2025. (CP)
Bampton Classical Opera’s spirited La locandíera is a remarkable tribute to the bicentenary of Salieri’s death
United Kingdom Antonio Salieri, La locandíera (The Landlady): Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Andrew Griffiths (conductor). The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire, 18.7.2025. (CP)
Longborough’s Pélleas et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific!
United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande: Soloists, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 28.6.2025. (CP)
Bedlam reigns at Longborough’s sparkling The Barber of Seville
United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Rossini, The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Elaine Kelly (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 8.6.2025. (CP)
Lots to love about Opera North’s Così fan tutte at Nevill Holt
United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Chris Hopkins (conductor). Nevill Holt, Leicestershire, 6.6.2025. (CP)
