Jane’s autumn music guide 1 – orchestras
Two symphony orchestra concerts coming up in Durham this autumn are a great place to start exploring classical music.
Hunting for the next Sibelius
A blog post with some musings on making choices about what to listen to, as I confront the awful fear of becoming too set in my ways.
Capella Novocastriensis: flowers of summer and death
Capella Novocastriensis began their musical celebration of English summer with a lively performance of one of the oldest and, perhaps, the most optimistic, pieces of English music, the round ‘Summer is icumen in’. Part songs by Elgar and Finzi then made up most of the first half, the music scented heavily with flowers and dappled […]
