Manchester Classical Music

When this last concert of January was first planned by the Hallé and their partners in our Manchester Beethovenfest (probably around two ye...

I doubt there were many listeners for whom the really memorable thing in Saturday’s BBC Philharmonic concert was not The Lark Ascending , V...

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...