Manchester Classical Music

Here are a few CD recordings that came my way this year – a totally personal selection but all really well worth a listen: Ethel S...

Opera North have put a huge amount of resource into this new production of Martinů’s last opera (in the original, 1957-written, version)....

Back after seven years, one of Opera North’s best productions of baroque opera returns, and with a cast that’s almost as universally strong...

Ever wondered what swarming bees, murmurations of starlings, a plague of locusts and night-time insect sounds are like when expressed in mu...

Premiered in 1933, The Silver Lake was the last theatre work Kurt Weill completed before being forced out of Germany by the Nazis. His col...

This is the piece of which Emperor Josef II reportedly said there were ‘too many notes’ – at least as represented in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeu...

Without Sir Mark Elder, and without Alice Coote and Paul Nilon, the originally advertised mezzo and tenor soloists, the Hallé performance...