Rebecca Franks

Royal Festival Hall

Barbican, London

★★★★☆New music can be a tough sell, as Birmingham Contemporary Music Group found when only a handful of punters turned up for its Songs at Day, Songs at Night afternoon concert in Bristol. True, this

★★★☆☆After the challenging bleakness of Kurtag’s opera Endgame the night before, perhaps the Proms wanted to play it safe with its next British premiere. Beca

Mozart’s legendary lothario rapes and gaslights his victims, the director bringing the opera to Glyndebourne this summer tells Rebecca Franks

★★★★☆This performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 8 was originally planned for October 2020, in the dark days of the pandemic. It’s been quite the journey since to

★★★★☆Haydn’s The Seasons begins as dramatically as any Mozart opera overture or Beethoven symphony — even if this sequel to The Creation is often seen as its mo

Improvisation is at the heart of his blend of African and classical music, Abel Selaocoe tells Rebecca Franks

★★★★☆Even six years ago, would Chineke! have opened a programme with new music by two black female composers? The founder and double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku tol

★★★★☆After last year’s online event, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is back in the flesh, and it began with a concert ticking all those new music box