UK Critics' Circle Music

The Music Section of the UK Critics' Circle

[UK Critics' Circle Music @CCMusicUK]

Mash meets Ring! Radio doyenne Penny Smith, cultural augur Lola Salem, historian Paul Lay and Robert Thicknesse sift through the Royal Opera's terrific Siegfried in our first excursion into review-by-pod https://t.co/Em9TMlVDsO

[Alexandra Coghlan @AlexaCoghlan]

RPO/Edusei/Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha review – the makings of a classic Strauss | Classical music | The Guardian https://t.co/lgUHXvWCg2

[Classical Explorer @ClassicalExplo1]

Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch at Wigmore Hall: https://t.co/2sM3rroczG

[Classical Explorer @ClassicalExplo1]

LSO Futures: Shin's blazing new piano concerto, two talented youngsters and Boulez's work of genius, Rituel: In Memoriam Bruno Maderna: https://t.co/bDV3xzByPn

[UK Critics' Circle Music @CCMusicUK]

Mozart's Zauberflöte at RBO: a review. https://t.co/ulKUtPWufV

[Yehuda Shapiro @YehudaShapiro]

An exceptionally involving Onegin from @wildarts, hosted by @operahollandpk this evening. A production that felt entirely in the spirit of the piece and flowed beautifully. The sense of ensemble was palpable. Another independent company showing how it can be done.

[Classical Explorer @ClassicalExplo1]

#Tchaikovsky Onegin at Thaxted Festival: https://t.co/IDRNZhcgi7

[Alexandra Coghlan @AlexaCoghlan]

"By turns beautiful and frustrating: review @Operanow of Colin Matthews and William Boyd's debut opera A Visit To Friends @BrittenPears https://t.co/8NsYAVd5QX

[George Hall @GeorgeHallMusic]

Scene after scene registers as a genuine coup de theatre: it has to be 5 stars from me in @TheStage for Hansel’s Saul @glyndebourne
https://t.co/4jTAGb9p6z

[Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple]

Opening night at @grangeparkopera – Simon Keenlyside singing Simon Boccanegra. But here’s the 2026 season:

[Alexandra Coghlan @AlexaCoghlan]

Interviewed the delightful Masaaki Suzuki for @The_Tablet ahead of his debut with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra later this month:

[Martin Cullingford @MrPhoebus]

'Nordic music has lost a patriarchal figure and the wider contemporary music world an artist of colossal imagination and influence'. Andrew Mellor pays tribute to Per Nørgård, who has died aged 92 https://t.co/ikNtKloPoW

[Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple]

♠️ Three, Seven, Ace: Jack Furness plays his cards right in an outstanding Queen of Spades at @garsingtonopera
My review for Opera Now:
https://t.co/gvECIqHhpZ

[UK Critics' Circle Music @CCMusicUK]

The resurrection of classic films and their scores: Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" at Sheffield, in a post by @Cageian

[Classical Explorer @ClassicalExplo1]

#Sheffield Chamber Music III: Battleship Potemkin (with a live performance of Meisel's score), and a relaxed concert: https://t.co/J7Q4ivmXJr

[Andrew Mellor @operalastnight]

Per Nørgård 1932-2025.

A giant of Nordic music - of music full stop - has gone.

A unbounded musical imagination and perhaps the greatest symphonist of our time. But it was the sheer beauty of his music that held the breath and touched the heart. #pernørgård

[Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple]

Avner Dorman's Wahnfried: brave, unflinching, if a difficult opera to love. My review from Longborough:
https://t.co/s0xd0gTjF8

[Opera with Opera News @operamagazine]

The soprano Seohyun Go has won the ⁦@guildhallschool⁩ Guildhall School’s Music Gold Medal 2025.

[Alexandra Coghlan @AlexaCoghlan]

This rare Telemann gem comes up sparkling from the Jette Parker Young Artists @rbo_org https://t.co/3ffzGn3YMc

[UK Critics' Circle Music @CCMusicUK]

Colin Clarke (@ClassicalExplo1) reviews Wagner's "Die Walküre" at Covent Garden:https://t.co/JyTpe3bz1Y

[Edward Seckerson @seckerson]

The more I have become immersed in Mahler’s symphonies over the years the more brightly the mighty Eighth has shone. Edward Gardner’s quite stupendous theatrically immersive ‘staging’ @LPOrchestra @southbankcentre was right up there. Thrilling. Moving. Visionary.