Silvesterkonzert – Artists of Circus Roncalli, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Paul Daniel – Tempodrom, Berlin (Photo: Peter Adamik) Torsten Rasch: Pataphor; Beethoven: Symphony no.9 in D minor; Mirjam Mesak, Emily D’Angelo, Christopher Sokolowski, Christof […]
In his role as Artist-in-Residence at the Dresdner Philharmonie, I heard Gautier Capuçon in the Kupturpalast in Dresden in September 2023. The orchestra was conducted by Kahchun Wong, the Principal Guest Conductor there and now […]
A real reminder of Massenet’s operatic genius here. This is the story of Salomé, later injected into operatic history books by Richard Strauss, but here set by Jules Massenet in a four-act opera with a […]
It seems amazing to me that I have not yet featured any music by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho (born 1949). These three quartets date from 1967, 1970 and 1971; Aho’s First Symphony was born […]
Ben Goldscheider & Gavin Higgins at the London premiere of Gavin Higgins’ Horn Concerto with London Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Jerome Weatherald) 2024 saw us writing 545 articles, from William Christie and Les Arts Florissants celebrating […]
Firstly, what a beautiful disc this is, from each and every angle: the performer, one of the most experienced tenors active today, James Gilchist, with a superb pianist, Anna Tilbrook, captured in Chandos’ trademark excellence […]
Early and late feature heavily in this year’s selection, but in the middle a pair of individual performances stand out. The white-hot dramatic impetus of John Osborn’s account of the title role in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète […]
Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque music featured highly this year, Lawrence Cummings and the AAM used just eight singers for their moving version […]
Britten: Death in Venice – Antony César (Tadzio), Frederico Saggese (Jaschiu) – Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson) It was one of those evenings about which you can say ‘I was there’, Wagner’s Die Walküre […]
Recorded on the Aix-en-Provence based label Rocamadour, this is an eclectic disc divided Ito four parts: “Réjooussez-vous”; “Un Enfant nous et né”; :Dans une Nuit silencieuse”‘; “Soyez Joyeux”. The label is new to me, but […]
