This is an extraordinary reading of an extraordinary piece. Jérémie Rohrer came o the piece afresh, escheiwing recorded versions. He performs it at A = 430 Hz (which apart from its historical prescience, helps the […]
Hidden Mechanisms: Leith, Werner, Miller, Mustonen Manchester Collective. 4pm, Purcell Room, 09.02.2025 Oliver Leith The big house (2021) Héloïse Werner Hidden Mechanisms (2025, London Premiere) Cassandra Miller Leaving (2011) Olli Mustonen Piano Quintet (2014) Manchester Collective has a […]
John Field – Nocturne No.17 in C, H 61Beethoven – Piano Sonata in G minor, Op.49/1John Field – Nocturnes: No.1 in E-flat, H 24; No.2 in C minor, H 25; No.4 in A, H 36; No.10 in E, […]
The Somm’s recording is quite bright, which suits Glass’ music well. Very even night hand melody include Eude No. 8: Giusto Di Lallo’s new album of Philip Glass Selected Piano Etudes – 10th Anniversary Special […]
The first of two releases on the Somm label this weekend (in their “Ariadne’ series), this is also the first in their stunning ongoing Bruckner From the Archives series. It seems to have a twofold […]
After Alfvén, Borgstrøm. Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1861-1925) might not be the best-known of Scandic composers, although some of his most important works were performed in his native Norway until the Second World War. Now, with he […]
Continuing our ongoing survey of the symphonies of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), we reach the richly complex Fourth symphony in C-Minor, Op. 39 of 1919. The subtitle is, in Swedish, “Från Havsbandet”; in English, “From the […]
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2025 Antonio Salieri La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) (1773) Performances: The Deanery Garden, Bampto, Oxfordshire, Friday 18, Saturday 19 July Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 25 August The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex: Saturday […]
One of the great choral works, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem is often thought of as a humanist requiem, a work for the bereaved passages form teh Bible sleeked by Brahms himself. It takes a great […]
Toshio Hosokawa’s music recalls the calligraphic lines of Japanese script, but, as he puts it, ‘at the limit of time and space’. Hosokawa reframes the very way we experience the guitar; traditional folk music retains […]
