We have been notified of the death of Howard Crook, a lyric tenor from Rutherford, New Jersey, who became a staple of the early-music scene in Paris.
He appeared in operas by Lully, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart and recorded with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Roger Norrington, William Christie and Marc Minkowski.
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The following press release has been received from the Montevedi Choir & Orchestra: Following two landmark performances at the Edinburgh International Festival – including John Tavener’s monumental The Veil of the Temple and a programme of Bach, […]
The orchestra has informed patrons that its season-opening concerts last night and today in Tel Aviv are off ‘in vew of the extreme security situation’. The concerts featured Mendelssohn’s violin concerto with Maxim Vengerov and […]
Newly uploaded by the LSO. The soloist is its principal cello. The post The Elgar concerto, by his own orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
