Pachelbel Organ Works
I was very taken by the se of aviations by Pachelbel heard in France recently Gerard de Wit’s performance of a Chaconne (with 12 variations) from the collection Hexachordium Apollinis. This disc, volume 3 of Mahew […]
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Proms 2025: A major Tovaldsdottir UK premiere
PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse Intégales (1924/25) Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere) Ravel Boléro (1928) Stravinsky Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13) […]
The performers invested so much in the music that we were carried away: Raphaël Pichon & Pygmalion rethink Mozart’s Zaide at the Salzburg Festival
Mozart: Zaide – Lea Desandre, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Pygmalion – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borrelli) Mozart: Zaide oder der Weg des Lichts, Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Julian Prégardien, Daniel Behle, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Pygmalion, conductor: […]
An astonishing piece of kinetic musical theatre: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at Salzburg Festival, directed by Ulrich Rasche with Lisette Oropesa & Kate Lindsey
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Bekhzod Davronov, Thomas Lehmann, Kate Lindsey – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Donizetti: Maria Stuarda; Lisette Oropesa, Kate Lindsey, Bekhzod Davronov, director: Ulrich Rasche, Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Salzburg Festival […]
Travelling hopefully: defying age & ill health, Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Wagner, Mendelssohn & Beethoven at the Salzburg Festival
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll – Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borelli) Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’; Lang Lang, West-Eastern […]
If Opera 2025 – Baroque Double Bill – Carissimi’s Historia Jonae and Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
To close its season this year, If Opera presented this intimate, but still dramatic, pairing of two 17th century vocal works, sacred and secular side by side. Carissimi’s Historia Jonae is one of a series […]
Youthful tragedy and transcendental mystery: Riccardo Muti & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert & Bruckner at Salzburg Festival
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti – Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borelli) Schubert: Symphony No. 4 ‘Tragic’, Bruckner: Mass in F minor; Ying Fang, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, William Thomas, Konzertvereinignung Wiener Staatopenchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo […]
L’Itinéraire (4): Les Délices de l’Âme
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Les Délices de l’Âme Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badáová, soprano; Michaela Ambrosi, transverse flute; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 02.08.2025 Michel de la Barre Suite IX: […]
If Opera 2025 – Verdi’s Rigoletto – with Alexey Gusev, Inna Husieva & Andrés Presno; directed by Nina Brazier; conducted by Oliver Gooch
Nina Brazier’s production of Rigoletto for If Opera (in its delightful new home at Church Farm, Wingfield) presents it as a lively historical spectacle, set at the court of Henry VIII (neatly translating the scene […]
Strange & intriguing: Dmitri Tcherniakov directs his first Baroque opera with Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Salzburg
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Robert Raso (Curio), Lucile Richardot (Cornelia), Yuriy Mynenko (Tolomeo), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla) – Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Christophe Dumaux, Olga Kulchynska, Lucile Richardot, […]
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