An epoch has ended. Alastair Macaulay reports from Glyndebourne: Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, announced from the Glyndebourne stage that this had been his final performance; I wish I had been there. […]
Music in the Museum – Agustin Pennino – London Transport Museum Music in the Museum: Handel, Mendelssohn, Michael Head, Rossini; Agustin Pennino; London Transport MuseumReviewed 21 March 2025 A young Uruguayan counter-tenor braves the hubbub caused […]
Jacques Hétu: Symphony No. 5; Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Alexander Shelley; AnalektaReviewed 29 January 2025 Premiered three weeks after his death, Canadian composer Jacques Hétu’s massive symphony […]