2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (178+ words) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Jac van Steen Hindemith Concert Music for Strings and Brass Op. 50 (1930)Ravel Piano Concerto in G major (1929-31)Honegger Pacific 231 (1923)Stravinsky Petruska (1911, rev. 1947) Symphony Hall, Birmingham Wednesday 5 May 2026 Tonight's concert by the City…...

1+ day, 34+ min ago  (334+ words) Arcana. fm adapted from the press release by Ben Hogwood Glacial Movements, the ambient and electronic music label founded in Rome in 2006 by Alessandro Tedeschi (Netherworld), celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of The Hermit, a collection of restored archival…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (374+ words) Lawrence English announces a new album The Rest Is My Ghost, which is, to some extent, the conclusion of a trilogy including Wilderness of Mirrors (2014) and Cruel Optimism (2016). The album arrives on Room40 on 7th August and is preceded by the single…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (325+ words) Reviewed by Ben Hogwood Released earlier this year, A Sky So Close is the latest solo album from Thievery Corporation co-founder Eric Hilton. "This record is an atmosphere, a state of mind. I indulge myself by making music that I…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (664+ words) Arcana. fm The Oxford International Song Festival marks its 25th anniversary with a thrilling and wide-ranging programme centred on the theme of love. Spanning 59 events, the Festival explores love in its myriad forms " its joys, complexities, and heartbreaks expressed in music…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (152+ words) by Ben Hogwood. Image by La Presse, courtesy of Wikipedia Two French composers share significant anniversaries on this day. The first, organist-composer Marcel Dupr, was born on this day 140 years ago. His innovations for the instrument were many, and here…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (118+ words) Arcana. fm by Ben Hogwood. Image courtesy of Wikipedia On this day in 1936, the first performance took place of Prokofiev's much-loved Peter and the Wolf. This piece was commissioned by the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow, and given its first…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (403+ words) Reviewed by Ben Hogwood Juha M'ki-Patola's third solo album is his first release for Fat Cat Records' post-classical imprint 130701. It consists of twelve carefully composed and intricately layered pieces, "built around upright piano and Prophet 10 loops processed through tape echo…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (58+ words) by Ben Hogwood Image of Dvo'k courtesy of Wikipedia On this day in 1885, the first performance of Dvo'k's Seventh Symphony took place, at St. James's Hall in London, with Dvo'k himself conducting. It is one of his finest symphonies, highly…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (168+ words) Sophie Bevan (soprano), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), CBSO Chorus (chorus-master, David Young), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth Purcell Funeral Music for Queen Mary Z860 (1695)Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (1865-68) Symphony Hall, Birmingham Thursday 23 April 2026 Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse Having…...