It was the culmination of four days of exquisite musical offerings from this year’s Leeds Lieder Festival, with festival director Joseph Middleton joined on stage by soprano Carolyn Sampson and baritone Roderick Williams. The...
Read MoreToday, we enjoy more variety of rock than a Blackpool gift shop. Music has gone through a metamorphosis over the past couple of decades. Back in the 80s and 90s, music (and those who followed it) was more rigid than you probably...
Read MoreThe Hallé Orchestra and the Hallé Choir came together in Manchester recently to deliver a performance of epic proportions in a highly accomplished presentation of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Janácek’s...
Read MoreThe Leeds – as it’s commonly referred to – has come a long way since 1963 and former concert pianist Fanny Waterman’s vision of a piano competition in the heart of West Yorkshire. The 2018 programme, which has just...
Read MoreLast Thursday in Manchester, with the wind howling and the rain falling so heavily that mass evacuation by ark seemed likely, the Hallé Orchestra opened its 2018/19 season under its guest conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens. First up...
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