live
The Royal Festival Hall Organ Speaks Again
After two years of silence, London's great instrument returns with a recital that rebuilt the room's acoustics around it.
David Achebe · 2025-09-11
Current Issue
No. 04
Autumn 2025
The sound of a season: reports from the concert hall, the studio, and the page.
In this issue
interviews
María Fontanez: Bringing the Opera House Home
The soprano on singing in kitchens, community stages, and why the fourth wall is the only thing worth demolishing.
Isabelle Moreau · 2025-09-10
recordings
Mahler's Eighth, Restored: A Century Later
A painstaking restoration returns the premiere recording of the Symphony of a Thousand to something like living sound.
Eleanor Vance · 2025-09-09
reviews
Schubert's Quintet, Played Like a Confession
Four players and a borrowed cellist find the private grief beneath the C major surface of D. 956.
Iris Chen · 2025-09-08
interviews
Samuel Ode and the Architecture of Silence
The composer of the new choral cycle explains why he begins every score with thirty seconds of nothing.
David Achebe · 2025-09-06
reviews
Mozart's Twenty-Third, Rethought
A pianist of uncommon clarity turns K. 488 into a chamber dialogue, with the orchestra listening rather than accompanying.
Theo Marsh · 2025-09-05
live
Lucerne at Dusk: Festival Notes
Evening reports from the lakeside: a world premiere under rain, a midnight quartet, and the best interval coffee in Europe.
Rosa Lindqvist · 2025-09-04
recordings
The Autumn Recordings Guide
Ten new releases, from a remastered Bruckner Ninth to a debut song cycle recorded in a disused chapel.
Theo Marsh · 2025-09-03
reviews
Brahms at the Barbican: A Late Style Reconsidered
The Fourth Symphony, played as a series of questions rather than answers, reveals a composer still arguing with himself.
Eleanor Vance · 2025-09-02
interviews
Lena Hart on the Colour of Sound
The violist talks about tone as material, the politics of repertoire, and why she records in the dark.
Rosa Lindqvist · 2025-09-01