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First Person: Héloïse Werner on a live collaboration with fellow composers and performers | reviews, news & interviews First Person: Héloïse Werner on a live collaboration with fellow composers and performers First Person: Héloïse Werner on a live collaboration with fellow composers and performers New music in a trio concert with a difference by Héloïse WernerMonday, 28 June 2021 A rich line-up for 3 July: Kit Downes, Colin Alexander and Héloïse Werner feature music by Shiva Fesharek, Love Ssega, Errolyn Wallen, Jonathan Cole and Jasmin Kent Rodgman It’s not every day...

Jasmin Kent Rodgman Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Ahead of a concert at St John's Smith Square exploring separation, Jasmin Kent Rodgman reflects on the impact of the past year on artists Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited access to news, features, blogs, awards and artist content

Mozart’s opera was a triumph for its young cast, Vladimir Jurowski said farewell with Swan Lake, and a mixed British repertoire went back to the land

Madeleine Mitchell. Photo: Daniel Ross   Violinist and director of the London Chamber Ensemble Madeleine Mitchell put together an eclectic range of works written over the past 100 years by British female composers. The concert was designed to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, although I find these works stand on their own merit without needing a banner of justification. It is an enormous help when the performances are as honed as these – which in the Covid situation is nothing short of miraculous. The concert, live streamed from St John’s Smith Square, began with the flui...

Sat 15 May 2021 07.00 EDT The English Concert, directed by Harry Bicket, has launched a new Handel opera series with one of his finest: Rodelinda (Linn), first performed at the King’s theatre, London in 1725 with top singers of the day. Bicket’s cast, too, is crammed with Handelian talent. Soprano Lucy Crowe sings the title role, always brilliant in precision and expressive power, as heard in her sorrowful aria Ombre, piante. The countertenor Iestyn Davies, as her “dead” husband Bertarido, invests every word, every note with intensity, and sends the dramatic temperature s...