We heard Yoav Lavanon a the Gstaad Festival in 2023: the report is here. He gave a recital in Verbier, too, in 2019: here’s a video he made about that particular experience: Levanon styles himself […]
Stagings of Bach Passions are, if not the norm, certainly not unknown; and Insula showed how effective known music with projection can be in Mat Collishaw’s Sky Burial, a film response to Fauré’s Requiem. Insula’s Brahms […]
This was recital progamming of the very highest level, the first half a cycle of lullabies; the second a celehration of the female creatrix in Her various forms. It all opened with a fisher […]
Anglican repertoire is the subject of this disc, a sequence of English anthems both rousing and touching. The Choir of Merton College, Oxford enter in absolutely full voice of Elgar’s”Light out of darkness” (from the […]
Exploration isnt’ just about repertoire; it’s also about new talent. Crisian Sandrin here gives performances of the last three Beethoven piano sonatas for the ages: plus a bonus (Carl Tausig’s arrangement for piano of the […]
We have written previously on Hanuš/Hans Winterberg, including a concert in Berlin, and an article here, In addition, for the USA journal Fanfare, I reviewed a disc of orchestral music including an historic recording. This […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
