Wigmore Hall 125:Schubert, Clara Schumann, Wolf, Poulenc, Lili Boulanger, Ravel, Jeanne Bernard Sandrine Piau (soprano); David Kadouch (piano). Wigmore Ha, 1pm, 09.02.2026 Schubert Schwanengesang, D 957: Liebesbotschaft; Ständchen; Am Meer. Clara Schumann Ich hab’ in […]
This is Classical Explorer‘s seventh post on Wranitzky,by my count, from ballet (Das listinge Bauernmädchen), to music for plays, to various symphony releases. We start with one of the late symphonic, Op. 50 in G-Major: […]
Some soul-searching lat Schubert today by two latter-day piano mastees. Leif One Andsnes and Bertrnd Chamayou are both poets of the piano (think long the likes of Murray Perahia). All the works date from the […]
This is Michael Praetoius (157101621), by the way, not Heironymous. Settings of the same text are juxtaposed against each other throughout, one by Praetorius, one by Schütz. Praetoius and Schütz’s parallel setings of the penitential […]
A beautiful mix of Berg, Schulhoff and Webern here. This is the Leonkoro Quartet’s debut recoding fo Alpha Classics, offering performances of polish and superb resonance with the music of the Second Viennese School. Berg’s […]
Elgar The Kingdom, Op. 51 (1906). Francesca Chiejina (soprano); Dame Sarah Connolly (contralto); Benjamin Hulett (tenor); Ashley Riches (bass-baritone); Crouch End Festival Chorus; Hertfordshire Chorus; London Orchestra da Camera / David Temple (conductor). … for […]
r Elgar The Kingdom, Op. 51 (1906). Francesca Chiejina (soprano); Dame Sarah Connolly (contralto); Benjamin Hulett (tenor); Ashley Riches (bass-baritone); Crouch End Festival Chorus; Hertfordshire Chorus; London Orchestra da Camera / David Temple (conductor). … […]
Mozart Birthday Concert Zheng Jing (countertenor); Alexander Semple (baritone); The Mozartists / Ian Page (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 27.01.2026 Mozart Thamos, Konig in Agypen, K 345: Entr’acte (Act 1). Concert aria, “Ombra felice”. Haydn Symphony […]
Even in an arena of such ul-Modenist divvy as he Scandinavian and surrounding course, he music of Pelle Gudmundsen0Holmgeen sands-our and alone. In some senses h is teh Ligi of this region: after the elusively […]
For all he attention on Faust and his Bach arrangement, Ave Maria, the music of Gounod remains elaivly unexplored. This is a welcome disc, therefore. Iroically, I begins with just that Ave Maria in its […]
