Letter from Professor Ira Sohn in this weekend’s Financial Times: Regarding Tim Harford’s disquisition on the “Baumol effect” and his observation that “it still takes four musicians between 25 and 30 minutes” to play a […]
Past students are sharing their sadness at the death of John Barstow, former head of keyboard at the Royal College of Music. He used to pay out of his own pocket for students to hear […]
Page from the edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497 Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon, Jean-Philippe Rameau:Pygmalion; Anna Dennis, Rachel Redmond, Katie Bray, Thomas Walker , Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; BarbicanReviewed by […]
Title page of the “Bassus Generalis” for one of the partbooks in which the Vespers were published in 1610 Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610; Solomon’s Knot; Wigmore HallReviewed 12 October 2024 A chance to hear Monteverdi’s […]
The influential California viola player Kay Pech has died, aged 87. Kay was principal violist of the Disneyland Orchestra for 43 years. As a violinist, she was concertmaster of the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra in […]
The evening opened with Matthias Pintscher leading the US premiere of his tone poem neharot, which he describes as ‘a tombeau, a requiem, a kaddish – for all the people we have lost’ in the […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The fashion these days is to remix the 16 Beethoven quartets, selecting one from each period — early, middle and late — in concert and record cycles. It […]
I once tried to introduce a friend to Bruckner via the Fifth Symphony. The concert did not go down well – ‘the work of a madman’ was just one of the reservations I recall. And […]
t is lovely to see some Johann Friedrich Fasch, his music is always colourful and imaginative. While in employment under Prince Johann August von Anhalt- Zerbst (1677-1742) as court Kapellmeister at the Anhaltinische Hof in […]
Handel’s Theodora – Royal Opera Click here to subscribe I’m recommending this production of Handel’s own favorite of all his oratorios with some trepidation because the director, not my favourite, has transposed the action from […]
