Paul Riley
Recent articles by Paul Riley
2024's best classical music festivals: Australia and South Africa
Paul Riley picks out some of 2024's best classical music festivals to look out for in Australia and South Africa
2024 best classical music festivals: Middle East, China, Japan and Taiwan
Paul Riley picks out some of the best classical music festivals to look out for in the Middle East, Japan and Taiwan
30 best classical music festivals in Europe for 2024: what's on this year?
It's looking like a busy summer for operas, concerts and music festivals across Europe. Here are some of the very best classical music festivals that you may want to grab tickets for
27 best classical music festivals in USA and Canada 2024
Paul Riley picks out some of the best classical music festivals to look out for in the USA and Canada
48 best UK classical music festivals and summer operas taking place in 2024 - book now!
The summer festival season is back with a vengeance! Here are the very best UK classical music festivals to look out for in 2024
La Nativité du Seigneur: a guide to Messiaen's Christmas organ cycle and its best recordings
In his nine-movement depiction of the birth of Christ, La Nativité du Seigneur, Messiaen produced one of the 20th century’s great organ works, says Paul Riley
End of My Days
A Lionel Tertis Celebration
Take 3 (Patricia Kopatchinskaja)
CPE Bach: The Hamburg Symphonies
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Rachmaninov Reflections
Handel: Messiah
Byrd: Keyboard Works
JS Bach • James MacMillan - Motets etc
Warlock: Maltworms & Milkmaids
Nadine Benjamin, Ben McAteer; BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orchestra/David Hill (EM Records)
Parry: Prometheus Unbound; Blest Pair of Sirens
Festival Chorus; London Mozart Players/William Vann (Chandos)
Stephen Hough - Mirabilis
London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron (Orchid Classics)
Michael Praetorius: composer, organist, theorist, Renaissance man extraordinaire
Best known for a moment of festive perfection, the music of the German composer Michael Praetorius was, explains Paul Riley, shaped by the Lutheran era in which he lived
L'Invitation au voyage
Dmitry Smirnov (violin); Kammer-orchester Basel/Heinz Holliger (Prospero Classical)
Glazunov • Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos
Rudolf Koelman (violin); Sinfonietta Schaffhausen/Paul K Haug (Challenge Classics)
An Invitation at the Schumanns
Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone), Jorge González Buajasan (piano); Trio Dichter (Harmonia Mundi)
Buxtehude, the Danish composer who inspired Bach
Dieterich Buxtehude was a composer so original that JS Bach felt compelled to walk hundreds of miles just to hear him at work. Paul Riley salutes one of choral and organ music’s early geniuses