Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Alpha Classics
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Donizetti Songs, #3: Carlo Rizzi returns, this time with Michael Spyres
We discussed Michael Spyres’ Erato disc Contra-tenor previously here, an astonishing delve into what it means to be a tenor (and there’s complement to this disc, Baritenor). Now. Spyres joins Carlo Rizzi for the third […]
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players – H.M.S. Pinafore
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ winter ‘mini season’ opened with a thoroughly charming performance of H.M.S. Pinafore, the fourth of the duo’s fourteen collaborations and their first breakthrough hit. This is the first Pinafore staged under Artistic […]
Zoë Martlew’s debut Album Z: an update
An expanded post: the bottom of this previous article is a brief report of last night’s album launch a King’s Place, London. Full links are given at the end, too. Last seen (by me, at […]
Vivanco’s ‘lost’ Requiem: Conductor David Allinson on unearthing new treasures from the Spanish Golden Age
David Allinson and The Renaissance Singers at Holy Sepulchre London, The Renaissance Singers is a chamber choir with a difference. One of London’s leading non-professional vocal groups, for over 80 years it has specialised in […]
Arise, my love: Music for the Break of Day from Magdalen College
People have been going up for a very long time. So the music here fittingly spans some 500 years, from Tallis to Cheryl Frances-Hoad, music that celebrates a new day and the hope (and anticipation) […]
A Winner: Ginastera Quartets
This is only the second disc containing music by Alberto Ginastera (1916-83) that has been considered here on Classical Explorer: previously, Camerata Bern on Alpha included his Concerto for Strings on they release Plaiirs illuminées. […]
Connection beyond boundaries: a symphonic work inspired by Esoteric Buddhism, Symphony Kūkai to be performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall
Statue of 8th-century Japanese Master Kūkai The 8th-century Japanese Master Kūkai journeyed across the sea to Tang-China to study Esoteric Buddhism under the revered monk, Master Huiguo. Returning to Japan in the year 806, he […]
Opera comes to Clapham Grand: The Merry Opera Company in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Built as The New Grand Theatre of Varieties in 1900 by a consortium of music-hall artistes, the Grand in Clapham has been through various vicissitudes including periods as a cinema and bingo hall, going dark for […]
More Foerster from Naxos
The Hradec Králové Philharmonic takes on Josef Bohuslav Foerster’s Second Symphony here: quite the challenge, and one taken with aplomb. We explored Foerster’s First Symphony on Naxos here. Wagner and Debussy are two oft-mentiooed composer […]
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