PROMS Striggio & others Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.08.2025 Striggio Mass, ‘Ecco sì beato giono’, preceded and interspersd with works by Benevolo, Coreccia, Massenzio & Palestrina. Motet, Ecce beatem […]
The English record producer Roy Thomas Baker died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona on Saturday. He was 78. Baker began working at Decca at age 14 and flourished in the early 1970s […]
A disc of Preludes is not so unusual: but here there is no Chopin or Debussy in sight. Instead, Anton Arensky rubs shoulders with Rachmaninoff; Ravel meets Gershwin. I enjoyed Japanese pianist Yuki Negishi’s debut […]