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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And here.
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The violist Clifton Harrison has let it be known he is leaving the Kreutzer Quartet in a couple of weeks. He has been with the much-recorded group for just under ten years. The post UK […]
Not many music gongs. Alex Beard (pic), CEO of the Royal Ballet and Opera since 2013, becomes Sir Alex. David Pickard who ran the BBC Proms for 9 years gets an OBE. Ann Atkinson, former […]
