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Erica Jeal

August 2024

  • Jane Stanley, pictured during recording sessions for Cerulean Orbits

    Jane Stanley: Cerulean Orbits album review – music with an ear for texture and economy

  • Beautifully embellished melodies … Aigul Akhmetshina.

    Aigul Akhmetshina: Aigul album review – mezzo from Bashkortostan is an insouciant star

July 2024

  • Prom 15: The Swingles/BBCPhil/Collon review – a bicycle wheel, birds and beatboxing

    Anna Clyne’s The Gorgeous Nothings was fleetingly spellbinding, borne by the Swingles’ singing, and Nicholas Collon ensured Messaien’s Turangalila was light on its feet
  • To the moon … The Excursions of Mr Brouček at the Rudolfinum, Prague.

    Janáček: The Excursions of Mr Brouček album review – eccentric opera has sparkle and muscle

    Jaroslav Březina is characterful in the title role for this new studio recording, heading an excellent cast and orchestra who know this music inside out
  • Mishka Rushdie Momen.

    Mishka Rushdie Momen: Reformation album review – beguiling and beautiful performances make the past present

    The British pianist plays 16th-century keyboard works on a modern grand, making them feel fresh and new with a virtuosic light touch

June 2024

  • Thomas Atkins (Boris) and Natalya Romaniw (Katya) in Katya Kabanova at Grange Park Opera.

    Katya Kabanova review – Romaniw soars in cogent take on Janáček’s tragedy

  • Worth the wait … Janine Jansen playing with the Oslo Philharmonic, conducted by Klaus Mäkelä.

    Sibelius and Prokofiev Violin Concertos album review – freewheeling rapport never sounds forced

  • VOICES8 Foundation - press handout image - TSOL 01

    To Sing of Love album review – sweetly glowing, beautifully coloured choral music

  • Paul Grant as Figaro and Elgan Llŷr Thomas as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville.

    The Barber of Seville review – Rossini’s opera gets a British Victoriana makeover

May 2024

  • Fatma Said sings on stage with pianist Joseph Middleton backing her at a grand piano

    Fatma Said/Joseph Middleton review – expressive storytelling

    The Egypt-born singer’s recital took in a wide selection of songs, from Mozart to Lebanese composer Najib Hankash, all brought to life by her bright and pliant soprano and the sensitive accompaniment of Joseph Middleton
  • Conductor Martyn Brabbins.

    BBCSO/Brabbins review – a Brazilian mass brings a ray of Rio sunshine

    Mellower than its European counterparts, Nunes Garcia’s mass flowed easily under Brabbins’ baton – and the four solo singers basked in its floridity

    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 1, 6 and 8 album review – characterful and infectiously gleeful

    • Sherratt/Drake: Fear No More album review – drinkably deep bass at his peak

    • Leonidas Kavakos review – the music dances irresistibly in ego-free solo Bach

April 2024

  • The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir András Schiff at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

    OAE/Schiff review – Mendelssohn deep dive is charged with energy and colour

    Two of Mendelssohn’s symphonies plus his second piano concerto were almost too much of a good thing, but not when played with such delicacy and spirit
  • ‘Forget about stage and audience, to mix and experience the absurdity, with humour and sarcasm’ … Kopitchanskaja performs with the LSO in 2023.

    ‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’: why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat

    She plays barefoot in jeans with a thrilling unpredictability that makes every show electric. Ahead of a performance that promises to transform the concert stage into a living room, we meet the whirlwind violinist

    • Britten: Violin Concerto Chamber Works album review – bravura and brilliance as Faust turns to Britten’s violin writing

    • Aci by the River review – just add water for a stylish rethink of Handel

    • Rose in Bloom album review – crystalline debut of a new high coloratura star

March 2024

  • James MacMillan conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Let There Be Light at the Barbican.

    Let There Be Light review – MacMillan’s monumental work needs a monumental space

    The centrepiece of a thoughtfully curated programme examining light and loss, James MacMillan conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the UK premiere of his 2020 choral work Fiat Lux
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