Category: Previews

  • Imagined Occasions: London Contemporary Orchestra celebrates its 5th birthday

    I don’t recall what I did for my fifth birthday but I certainly will remember the London Contemporary Orchestra’s fifth birthday. I visited the abandoned Aldwych Underground Station on the 24th May to experience behind the scenes of the first of the London Contemporary Orchestra’s ‘Imagined Occasions’ series (performed that evening). Helen Scarlett O’Neill and…

  • BBC Radio 3 to Premiere ‘Unknown’ Brahms

    In an age when one might think we have discovered most of the treasures of the musical world – that there is nothing new to find – it is exciting to learn that musicologists still come across hidden delights. Conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood made an exciting discovery while looking through a music collection in…

  • The Land with music – BBC Four & BBC Radio 3 celebrate British Music

    The Reader’s Digest revealed the results of a survey, in 2010, that “the British may be a nation of music lovers, but they are clueless when it comes to classical composers, a survey revealed today”  (Guardian article here). Over one thousand people responded; 27% of them did not know Elgar was a composer, 72% of the…