Manchester Classical Music

This has been a distinctly different year in many ways, including the kind of CD recordings that have come my way. But, as perhaps a selecti...

The Mid-day Concerts welcomed Belarus-born Olga Stezhko for a 40-minute recital of French piano music from the first third of the 20 th ...

It takes a big pianistic personality to make Rachmaninov’s second concerto sound fresh and different, but Boris Giltburg has that persona...

At first sight, putting Myaskovsky’s sixth symphony into a programme immediately following the Hallé’s performance of Beethoven’s ninth m...

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...