Beethoven NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 3pm, 19.01.2025 (CC) String Quartets: No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18/4 (1799/1800); No. 9 in C, Op. 59/3, Razumovsky’ (1806) The NOVO Quartet of Denmark won the 77th […]
On the Transmigration of Souls: Haydn, Kurtág, Adams. Anna Devin (soprano); Hanna Hipp (mezzo); Rupert Charlesworth (tenor); Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass); Tiffin Youth Choir; London Philharmonic Choir; Jonathan Green (sound designer); London Philharmonic Orchestra / […]
For those looking for a modern-instrument performance of Mozart’s Requiem (in the Süßmayr completion), look no further. If ever there was an example of Jansons’ art, this is it. There will be adherents of Jansons’ […]
Odisea: Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky Jorge Glem (Venezuela cuatro); Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gusavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.02.2025 Ricardo Lorenz Todo Tereno (2022) Gonzalo Grau Odisea (2022) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 […]
Mahler – Symphony No. 3. Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano); Tiffin Choirs Children’s Choir; London Symphony chorus; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15 January, 2025 The Simón Bolivar Symphony […]
This release celebrates 25 years of La Cetra Basel. deferred to as “greatest musical masterpiece of all time,” in the 19th century, Bach’s Mass in B minor remains.toweing msterpiece. As conductor Andrea Marcon says, “It […]
Francesco Scarlatti (ed. Webber)– Il Daniele nel lago de’ Leoni. Handel – Dicit Dominus, HWV 232. Armonico Consort;, Christopher Monks (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 10 January 2025 The rarest of the rare, perhaps, here: an oratorio […]
Are we a land without music? Julian Leeks asks that very question in his new podcast of that name from Sound World. There are, at the time of writing, six episodes covering a wide variety […]
Pierre Boulez – Éclat George Benjamin – Interludes and Aria from ‘Lessons in Love and Violence’ (World Premiere) Brahms – Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Boulez 100, Rattle 70: both nice and […]
I was privileged to hear Fuget rehearse Lully in the Versalles Chapel. It really is a phenomenal experience, and all credit for the label engineers here for capturing the famous acoustic so well for this […]
