The final program in Evgeny Kissin’s three-concert celebration of Shostakovich began with the composer’s penultimate creation, Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, a setting of words spoken by the loathsome character who affected to be a poet […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A terrific sense of collaboration: composer Colin Matthews and writer William Boyd on their first opera, A Visit to Friends")
William Boyd and Colin Mathews (Photo: Mark Allan) During his long career the composer Colin Matthews has been associated with several other composers, he assisted both Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst at the Aldeburgh Festival, […]
This is core repertoire, so it needs to be special. It is. For his ninth recording with Decca (he signed in 2011, when he became the youngest British musician and the first British pianist in over sixty […]
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Why don’t we hear more Lutoslawski? So much wit and worldliness. The post A little Luto for the weekend appeared first on Slippedisc.
Bobby Darin Just in Time, the musical about the late Bobby Darin, was the only major Tony contender I didn’t manage to see while I was in New York, although I tried, but here, to […]
The pianist Charles Wadsworth, Spoleto’s founding Artistic Director of Chamber Music, has died in New York. He also created and ran the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, from 1969 to 1989. Charles is survived […]
The Vienna Philharmonic has replaced an unwell Franz Welser-Möst in four concerts next weekend with Ivan Fischer. The programme is unchanged: Haydn’s 52nd, followed by Das Lied von der Erde. Minnesota Orchestra, too will have […]
Our resident critic has spent two nights at the opera: When the full history of sin is written, I hope it attends to why so many artists of the nineteenth century paid such great attention […]
Jacqueline Stucker History’s Lovers: Telemann: Overture-Suite: Burlesque de Quixotte, Handel: arias from Alcina, & Rodelinda, Concerto Grosso in F op. 6 No. 9, Telemann: aria from Orpheus; Jacqueline Stucker, La Nuova Musica, David Bates; Wigmore HallReviewed 28 […]
