Features
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Singing and signing
Tenor and choir trustee Toby Spence explains The Bach Choir’s latest project for people with hearing loss
Since 2017,
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Stephen Wallack releases his debut album Chapters
Stephen Wallack’s Chapters features new age pieces inspired by important moments in the pianist’s life. From ‘Weddings’,
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Preview: The Grange Festival
The Grange Festival, Hampshire
Preview by Adrian Mourby
When I travelled to rural Hampshire earlier this spring,
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Premieres: June’s new music
The climate crisis is more urgent than ever. Environmental opera Upon This Handful of Earth received its Norwegian premiere earlier this year.
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Classical music for teenagers in Armenia
We hear from the team behind DasA, a new project aimed at promoting classical music among students in Armenian schools.
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Mind map: mental health provision in classical music
Chris Gunness explores the facts and figures relating to mental health in the music industry
The music industry can be a challenging place to work.
How students suffer
A surge in demand for student mental health services is producing some innovative solutions, writes Christopher Gunness
‘I became depressed,
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Jammin’
JAM on the Marsh festival is going from strength to strength, each year developing and nurturing a community of artists and local people based...
Online production of the month: Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina Mussorgsky
La Scala, Milan
Review by James Imam
Photography by Brescia &
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DVD of the month: The Exterminating Angel
The Exterminating Angel
Adès
Erato 0190295525507
By Francis Muzzu
Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel was first seen at the Salzburg Festival,
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In pursuit of perfection
Social media is an important tool for promoting the musician. But how can the pressure to maintain a perfect online presence impact mental health?
On my mind
CM editor Lucy Thraves introduces the Harmony in Mind campaign with her own revelations about living with anxiety,
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Premieres: April’s new music
2019 marks the bicentenary of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s birth, and by way of celebration, the V&A are putting Queen Victoria’s recently-acquired coronet...
Yerkin Tatishev’s vision culminates in musical magic at the inaugural Tsinandali Festival
Turning his vision into a remarkable reality is what packed 1000 people into this groundbreaking event.
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Blazing a trail: Clara Schumann at 200
Clara Schumann was a towering figure in the German Romantic movement, her gifts as a pianist and composer no less important than as her...
Premieres: March’s new music
Alex Woolf’s Golden Rhapsody was recorded by Sir James Galway in 2017, but it will receive its first live performance this month.
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Preview: Dani Howard on her first opera Robin Hood
The Opera Story will premiere 25-year-old composer Dani Howard’s first full-length production, Robin Hood, on 27 February at London’s CLF Art Café in the...
Hitting the right notes
Conall Gleeson recently won a British Composer Award for his work with the New Note Orchestra – an orchestra that seeks to recruit people...
These Polish things
Jennifer Pike’s latest disc is an exploration of Polish music and character, and a celebration of the violinist’s own identity in the wake of...
Global fusion
The Symphony Orchestra of India’s first UK tour takes place later this month, visiting venues up and down the country with a programme that...
