Four months after his Carnegie Hall appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seong-Jin Cho returned, opening with one of Haydn’s few Sonatas in a minor key. After the impatiently insistent opening came a suitably sprightly […]
Wednesday’s concert at the Lighthouse concluded one of the most imaginative orchestral partnerships in the UK. As the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s second-longest-serving chief conductor, Kirill Karabits bid farewell to colleagues in Poole following his fifteen-year […]
It’s not so much twice Alexander as thrice Martinů, since this double bill of operas by that composer here happily follows soon after the Royal Opera House’s equally rare staging of Larmes de couteau at the Linbury […]
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s wound up its 2023-2024 season on Carnegie Hall’s mainstage with a winning program of Brahms.featuring two choral masterpieces by Brahms including this Hall’s premiere of Begräbnisgesang (Burial Song) scored for SATB choir […]
Five years on, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra returned to Carnegie Hall now with its new Chief Conductor. In line with the ‘Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice’, the concert opened with […]
A ‘bourgeois comedy’ is how Strauss described his autobiographical opera (1924), based on a real incident in which a misdirected letter (owing to the confusion of Strauss’s name with a similar one) was wrongly interpreted […]
As with the first two volumes of this series, these CDs mainly capture the celebrated Romanian pianist in his early years. Lupu’s Mozart is urban, elegant and rhythmically sprung with occasional ritenuti and pedal use […]
John Frederick Lampe’s opera The Dragon of Wantley (1737) is based on a Yorkshire legend about a ferocious dragon who terrorises the area of Wharncliffe Crags that was made better known in a ballad. The opera served […]
In these revelatory performances from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir András Schiff, no one could possibly doubt his passion for Mendelssohn who Hans von Bulow once waspishly declared “began life as […]
Through their work with the Hungaraton, Decca and Hyperion labels the Takács Quartet are very much associated with the core repertoire, so this release featuring five contemporary composers, bandoneón (a cross between a concertina and […]
