Gluck: Rare Arie d’opera on Tactus
This disc traces Gluck’s operatic activity for the years 1743-45, and has a his real musicological purpose. Previously (reviewing for Fanfare), I was less than taken by Elena de Simone’s Tactus disc of arias by […]
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Romances by Arensky & Rachmaninoff: Anastasia Prokofieva & Sergey Rybin explore songs by teacher & pupil in a recital celebrating their new disc on SOMM
Anton Arensky Still probably best known for his chamber music, Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) managed to fit an enormous amount into his relatively short life. He wrote three operas, a ballet (which was reused […]
Salzburg Festival 2026: celebrating Messiaen & Kurtág, a new Carmen, Ariadne auf Naxos on Mars, Henze, Dusapin & more
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Nino Gotoshia, Lisette Oropesa – Salzburg Festival 2025 (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) For the 2026 Salzburg Festival, the Intendant, Markus Hinterhäuser has taken Roland Barthes’ 1977 book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments […]
Another Wigmore triumph: Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber in Schubert
Schubert Lieder Christian Gerhaher (baritone); Gerold Huber (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.1.2026 Die abgeblühte Linde, D 514 (?1817). Der Jûngling an der Quelle, D 300 (c. 1817). Die blinde Knabe, D 833 (1825). Liane, D 298 (1815). Die Unglûchliche, D 713 (1821). Von Mitleiden […]
Yoav Levanon’s cinematic Liszt: the Transcendental Etudes
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 […]
Staged Brahms in Paris: Director David Bobée’s response to Deutsches Requiem
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 […]
A satisfying recital in so many ways: Katie Bray & William Vann explore the whole of Kurt Weill – In Search of Youkali
In search of Youkali: The songs of Kurt Weill; Katie Bray, William Vann, Murray Grainger, Marianne Schofield; CHANDOSReviewed 20 January 2026 A profoundly satisfying and intelligently put together recital tracing Weill from Weimar Germany to […]
ORA Singers opens applications for its 7th Young Composers’ programme for students at non fee-paying schools across the UK
The 2025 Young Composers’ Workshop with ORA Singers The vocal ensemble, ORA Singers, has opened applications for its seventh national Young Composers’ programme. This offers secondary students free composition coaching with professional composers, and the […]
The Benedetti Foundation on this week’s BBC Radio 4 appeal
The Radio 4 Appeal is a weekly 3-minute programme highlighting the work of a charity and appealing for donations to support its activities. This week the focus is on the Benedetti Foundation, with a short […]
Así que pasen cinco años: Edward Lambert’s Federico Garcia Lorca-based opera, In Five Years’ Time debuts at The Space Theatre
Federico García Lorca finished his play Así que pasen cinco años in 1931, five years to the day before he was executed. If was never produced during Lorca’s lifetime and he said it would be impossible […]
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