Bellini: La straniera – Helena Dix acknowledging applause at Chelsea Opera Group performanceCadogan Hall (Photo: c/o Helena Dix) Bellini: La straniera; Helena Dix, Thomas Elwin, Georgia Mae Bishop, Dan D’Souza, Chelsea Opera Group, Stephen Barlow; […]
It is always fascinating to encounter concert performances of works by composers whose mature or later pieces easily hold their sway in the core repertoire of the great opera houses worldwide. It gives a chance […]
Aziz Shokhakimov’s continuing success with the Strasbourg orchestra is exemplified in this recording. Good timing, too, given the Ravel celebrations this year. Recently, we covered a live performance in Strasbourg of Stravinsky’s Rite could with […]
I have really enjoyed Domingo Hindoyan‘s recordings of less familiar, less over-recorded repertoire. His discs of French ballet music, “Venezuela!”, and the music of Roberto Sierra were really terrific. But then Onyx released his Bruckner 4, and now […]
The final program in Evgeny Kissin’s three-concert celebration of Shostakovich began with the composer’s penultimate creation, Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, a setting of words spoken by the loathsome character who affected to be a poet […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A terrific sense of collaboration: composer Colin Matthews and writer William Boyd on their first opera, A Visit to Friends")
William Boyd and Colin Mathews (Photo: Mark Allan) During his long career the composer Colin Matthews has been associated with several other composers, he assisted both Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst at the Aldeburgh Festival, […]
This is core repertoire, so it needs to be special. It is. For his ninth recording with Decca (he signed in 2011, when he became the youngest British musician and the first British pianist in over sixty […]
Jacqueline Stucker History’s Lovers: Telemann: Overture-Suite: Burlesque de Quixotte, Handel: arias from Alcina, & Rodelinda, Concerto Grosso in F op. 6 No. 9, Telemann: aria from Orpheus; Jacqueline Stucker, La Nuova Musica, David Bates; Wigmore HallReviewed 28 […]
%20Ali%20Wright-28.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Impressive debuts: Opera Holland Park's first Wagner opera, Der fliegende Holländer is something of a triumph")
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer – Eleanor Dennis, Paul Carey Jones – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Paul Carey Jones, Eleanor Dennis, Robert Winslade Anderson, Neal Cooper, Angharad Lyddon, Colin Judson, […]
Edmund Meisel (arr. Morton) Battleship Potemkin Last year, Music in the Round celebrated 40 years, and included a performance of the film L’assassinat du duc de Guise with live music. This year upped the ante, […]
