Author : Mary McCartney

William Bland, a New Music composer, walks among us (b 1947) and a recent album of his piano compositions gives us reasons to be happy...

BY CUTCOMMON This April, the Australian Youth Orchestra will perform works from Shostakovich and Mahler — an experience one musician likens to stepping into an...

Released on the London Symphony’s LSO Live label, the album features the Beethoven Violin Concerto with new cadenzas by composer Jörg Widmann    In 2006,...

Zander and the solo quartet: Alfred Walker, Nichoilas Phan, Ashley Dixon, and soprano Liv Redpath (Hilary Scott photo) The Boston Philharmonic under conductor Benjamin Zander...

norman lebrecht February 25, 2023 Disguise and transvestism have been an essential part of opera plots from the Venetian origins of the genre.  In line...

Spaces James Romig Tony Oliver, vibraphone Sawyer Editions   James Romig’s music has become more expansive. Spaces (2021) is his third recent piece to run...

First – full disclosure. I received a copy of this CD, gratis, from the pianist himself with a request for a review. I don’t accept...

Due to illness, Skride has withdrawn from performing a UK premiere violin concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on March 3, 2023   Latvian violinist...

The Boston Bach Birthday is back! First Lutheran Church of Boston will hold its annual celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach and his music on Saturday, March 25th to honor...

norman lebrecht February 25, 2023 Message from the American mezzo: I am heartbroken to hear the news of John Nelson’s health which has made necessary...