The Watchman #5: Live, Love, Die
Editorial Tolerance is possibly our Salvation “ “Marks & Spencer’s has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its […]
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Gstaad Festival (3): Norma with Yoncheva and Pop
Bellini Norma (librettist: Felice Romani after Alexandre Soumet’s play, Norma, ou l’infanicide) Bellini’s Norma is one of the great operas; it is far more than just ‘Casta Diva’. And those UK readers who attended Chelsea […]
Gstaad 2025 (2): Violinist Georgii Moroz and pianist Marco Scilironi
Gstaad Menuhin Festival (2): Matinée des Jeunes Étoiles VI Georgii Moroz (violin); Marco Scilironi (piano). Gstaad Chapel, Gstaad, 1030am, 23.08.2025 Bartók Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, Sz 86 Moroz The Poet Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in […]
Gstaad Festival 2025 (1): “Ernster Humor”, Hagen Quartet & Mao Fujita
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in A-Major, Op. 72 (1946) Brahms Piano Quintet in F-Minor, Op. 34 (1865) Saanen Church, Switzerland, 21.08.2025 Saanen Church, Switzerland Dedicated to the great Beethoven Quartet, and premiered in Moscow […]
Suor Angelica and a Woman who Casts no Shadow: Proms 2025 continues its record of excellence
It used to be a fairly rare treat to hear Suor Angelica, but of late there have been a number of significant stagings. Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is rarer still, at least on these […]
Hervé Niquet at the Proms
PROMS Striggio & others Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.08.2025 Striggio Mass, ‘Ecco sì beato giono’, preceded and interspersd with works by Benevolo, Coreccia, Massenzio & Palestrina. Motet, Ecce beatem […]
Pachelbel Organ Works
I was very taken by the se of aviations by Pachelbel heard in France recently Gerard de Wit’s performance of a Chaconne (with 12 variations) from the collection Hexachordium Apollinis. This disc, volume 3 of Mahew […]
Proms 2025: A major Tovaldsdottir UK premiere
PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse Intégales (1924/25) Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere) Ravel Boléro (1928) Stravinsky Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13) […]
L’Itinéraire (4): Les Délices de l’Âme
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Les Délices de l’Âme Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badáová, soprano; Michaela Ambrosi, transverse flute; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 02.08.2025 Michel de la Barre Suite IX: […]
L’Itinéraire baroque (3): Dutch Baroque plays Dutch Baroque
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Dutch Baroque plays Dutch Baroque Dutch Baroque (Ivan Iliev, violin; Beniamino Paganini, transverse flute; Anne-Linde Visser, cello; Gerard de Wit, organ/harpsichord/director). Église Saint Pierre d’Edon France, 02.08.2025 Hellendaal Sonata in […]
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