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The Lark Ascending: Music to transport you to an English garden

3 September 2022Music

Saturday’s concert, given by the Stift Music Festival on the 27th August in the idyllic setting of Hooge Boekel, a Dutch country house just outside Enschede, was the perfect backdrop…

Stift Music Festival 2022: quite simply a jewel in the Overijssel crown

1 September 2022Music

Sophie Klußmann, Barbara Kozelj, Fabio Trümpy and Tomas Kildišius © Jurriaan Poesse

Held over nine days, with 28 concerts featuring over 40 talented and distinguished musicians, the Stift Music Festival here in the East Netherlands really has something for everyone. Founded in…

Makela’s Concertgebouw Mahler Marks the dawn of a new era in Amsterdam

22 August 2022Music

Friday night’s concert in Amsterdam, the first of a series of concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (KCO) and their new Artistic Partner, Klaus Mäkelä conducting Mahler 6, was the hottest…

Redefining the World of Classical Music Competitions

12 June 2022Music

Bertie Baigent, Grand Prix winner of the inaugural International Conducting Competition Rotterdam | | © Clare Varney

Friday night’s concert at De Doelen, Rotterdam was the culmination of two weeks of frenetic music-making here in the Netherlands, and the highlight of this inaugural International Conducting Competition, Rotterdam.…

A Striking If Perplexing Midsummer Night’s Dream!

2 June 2022Music

Bottom, performed by Marc Pantus, revelled in his fabulous lower register | © Kurt van der Elst

As a Suffolk girl, growing up just six miles from Benjamin Britten’s place of birth, the music from this most English of composers runs deep through my veins. Whilst preparing…

The Day Miro Petkov And Dominic Seldis Came To Town

23 May 2022Music

We are told that sometimes, the best things come to he who waits, however, over the past couple of years it seems there has been rather too much waiting. It…

Alpesh Chauhan, Alena Baeva and Phion find new emotional depths in these turbulent times

20 March 2022Music

Alphesh Chauhan and Alena Baeva backstage after the performance © Clare Varney

This winning combination of Alpesh Chauhan and Alena Baeva really did leave a lingering impression in the minds of this Dutch audience

Sofia Vasheruk plays Beethoven

1 November 2021Music

The Oost-Nederlands Symfonieorkest offered an enticing programme featuring the Russian-born pianist, Sofia Vasheruk playing Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto, the Emperor in the Ontmoetingkerk, Enschede on Saturday night. In a program originally…

Sofia Vasheruk Delights Enschede!

22 September 2021Music

Returning from performing in Venice earlier in the week, there was an audible gasp as Sofia Vasheruk (looking radiant in pink) and her husband, Andrey Nesterenko took to the stage…