Volksoper director Lotte de Beer claims that a quarter of her audience is under 30. In the coming season, announced this morning, she’s pitching for pink Euros with a Pride Week Fledermaus in June 2026. […]
Dear Alma, I am a graduate assistant at a college which offers lessons to any student who signs up. One of my students isn’t exactly tone deaf (she can sing and match pitches), but she […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The second cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich has never matched the first in public appeal or soloist appreciation. Premiered on the composer’s sixtieth birthday, at a concert where […]
Now that only the over-seventies can recall the half-century of semi-neglect which followed the world premiere of the Eighth, paradoxically Mahler’s biggest success in his lifetime, the old problem is stood on its ahead. Performances […]
Try this extraordinary Harmony of the Spheres by the Dutch composer Joep Franssens, a synthesist of choral styles from Bach to Ligeti. Just glorious sounds from the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conductor […]
Jack Bazalgette (Photo: Ehimetalor Unuabona) Jack Bazalgette is perhaps best known as the co-founder and director of through the noise, which since 2020 has programmed more than 130 classical music concerts in non-traditional venues using […]
Aix en Provence Easter Festival: Bach Anna El-Khashem (soprano); Mari Askvik (alto)l Nick Pritchard (tenor); Adrien Fournaison (bass); Namur Chamber Choir; Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix en Provence, […]
Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ was reserved for centuries for the Sistine Chapel, until modern media got involved. The post St Paul’s takes on the Sistine Chapel appeared first on Slippedisc.
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You have now. The recording dates from 1929. The post Ever heard Bartok play Scarlatti? appeared first on Slippedisc.
