Farinelli’s Violin
Later this month violinist Jorge Jiménez and his ensemble Tercia Realidad are releasing their disc, Farinelli’s Violin on Pan Classics. The disc features arias writtens for the castrato Farinelli in new versions where it is […]
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Opera in Virtual Reality: Alastair White’s #CAPITAL direct from the Metaverse courtesy of Tête à Tête
Alastair White: #CAPITAL Wikipedia defines the Metaverse as ‘a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection.The term metaverse […]
Ghost: Emma Wheeler & Anna Appleby’s life experience as queer, neurodivergent women has inspired their new electronica-opera premiering at Tête à Tête
If You Died, Who Would You Choose To Haunt? Manchester-based composer and songwriter Anna Appleby‘s work includes a chamber opera-ballet Citizens of Nowhere in 2016/17, an opera, Drought in 2022, for the BBC Philharmonic and […]
Web of influences: Harry Christophers & The Sixteen at Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich for latest stop of their Choral Pilgrimmage
Orlande de Lassus and the Bavarian court musicians, circa 1563-70 by Hans Mielich (1516-1573) Masters of Imitation: Lassus, Casulana, Josquin, Châtelet, Bob Chilcott; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Old Royal Naval College Chapel, GreenwichReviewed 10 September […]
Strasbourg’s 2024/25 season opens with terrific Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky, Holst Behzod Abduraimov (piano); Maîtrise de l’Opéra du Rhin; Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor). Salle Erasme, Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, 5.9.2024 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op. 23 (1874/5) Holst […]
Showcasing the talents of young Welsh musicians: Cowbridge Festival’s Young Artists Programme features Bute Wind Quintet & Quartet Draig
Since 2010, the Cowbridge Festival has been bringing classical music, jazz and folk to the community in the Vale of Glamorgan. The festival, which is now under the direction of the husband and wife team […]
L’Olimpiade: Vache Baroque makes an engaging case for Pergolesi’s penultimate opera
Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade – Natasha PageVache Baroque (Photo: Michael Wheatley) Pergolesi: L’Olimpiade; Aoife Miskelly, Nazan Fikret, Natasha Page, Shafali Jalota, Bechara Moufarrej, Frances Gregory, Robert Forrest, director: Laura Attridge, musical director Jonathan Darbourne; Vache Baroque Summer […]
A subtle depiction of a complex man, Green Opera’s 555:Verlaine en prison at Grimeborn
Verlaine drinking absinthe in the Café François 1er in 1892, photographed by Paul Marsan Dornac (Photo: Musée Carnavalet) Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Eleanor Burke – 555:Verlaine en prison; Logan Lopez Gonzalez, Anna Sideris, Stella Marie Lorenz; […]
REPOST Beethoven: Christus am Ölbege
Those folks at Alpha do it again: a superb recording of a piece that really deserves better recognition. This time, it is Beethoven under their gaze: an oratorio – Beethoven’s only one – on Christ […]
Scaling the peak: David Skinner on completing his Byrd project with The Great Service with Alamire in a recording reflecting new ideas about pitch and scoring
Alamire & His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts at All Hallows Gospel Oak for recording sessions for Byrd’s Great Service For such a large-scale and important work, William Byrd’s Great Service remains tantalising in many ways […]
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