Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann – Juan Diego Florez – Royal Opera House (Photo: RBO/Camilla Greenwell) Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann; Juan Diego Florez, Alex Esposito, Olga Pudova, Ermonela Jaho, Marina Costa-Jackson, director: Damiano Michieletto, […]
Thomas Hudson – John Beard, tenor who created the role of Jephtha for Handel Handel: Jephtha: Benjamin Hulett, Helen Charlston, Rowan Pierce, James Hall, Academy Choir Wimbledon, Academy Baroque Players, Matthew Best; Wimbledon International Music […]
Reynaldo Hahn in 1906 Songs by Reynaldo Hahn; Maria Schellenberg, Jack Holton, Nigel Foster; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist ChurchReviewed 8 November 2024 Over 20 of Hahn’s best known songs in a comprehensive […]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Anna Tsybuleva with hr-Sinfonieorchester, Alain Altinoglu I first chatted to pianist Anna Tsybuleva back in 2021 (by Zoom from her house in the Caucasus) when having won the Leeds […]
This is the first recording of these so-called “Dialogue Cantatas,” but it is certainly not the first appearance of the music of Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): on this site: previously, we covered his bassoon “cantatas” (also […]
Peter Wiegold and notes inégales in 2016 (Photo: Frederique Bellec) Club Inégales is back! Peter Wiegold’s genre-defying evening is returning to its Euston home for four evenings from 14 November. The events take place thanks […]
Dame Sarah Connolly & Mark Padmore in discussion at the Bailey Concert Singers Symposium Coaching and masterclasses for singers tends to be focused, understandably, on the wider solo repertoire but the Bailey Concert Singers’ Symposium […]
Sam Rudd-Jones: Three Sonatas, Variations, Jeux d’eau, Hardy in Love; Darragh Morgan, Kate Romano, Huw Watkins, Sam Rudd-Jones, Ed Lyon; Prima FacieReviewed 4 November 2024 A remarkable debut, a disc of chamber music by 25-year-old […]
Entitled simply “Quartets,” this disc presents three of Joseph Phibbs‘ quartets, performed by the Piatti Quartet.The First (2014) is available on a Champs Hilll release, also by the Piatti Quartet, Albion Refracted, where it shares […]
It is the centenary of Busoni’s death (1866-1924), and recordings, if not quite as omnipresent as some would like, are certainly increasing. On Classical Explorer, we’ve previously looked at Busoni’s Violin Concerto on Chandos with […]
