From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — think Emma Kirkby in a John Le Carre novel. Given that Kirkby and Co had covered most of the Baroque, it was hard to see where an unknown from Brno would go….
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The accounts are in for the fiscal year ending August 2023, and here are the top earners: Music director Van Zweden (via Bajada Productions) … $1,525,711 Executive director Deborah Borda … $1,317,344 plus $400,000 bonus […]
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The grandeur of Bach’s organ wiring coms across viscerally in this recording, but so dos its brilliant. Masaaki Suzuki, famous for Bach Collegium Japan and his Bach Cantata recordings (plus stupendous St Matthew and St […]
