Regent Opera’s Das Rheingold
The Regent Opera Ring has been slowly built up over four years, with each opera usually being staged in the Freemasons Hall in central London. For Götterdämmerung, finally staged as part of this set of […]
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,%20Jessica%20Cale%20(Giulietta)%20(c)%20Richard%20Hubert%20Smith.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Musical magic moments: Bellini's The Capulets & the Montagues at English Touring Opera takes us firmly into the 1950s and New York's mean streets")
Musical magic moments: Bellini’s The Capulets & the Montagues at English Touring Opera takes us firmly into the 1950s and New York’s mean streets
Bellini: The Capulets & the Montagues – Brenton Spiteri, Jessica Cale, Masimba Ushe – English Touring Opera, 2025 (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Bellini: The Capulets and the Montagues; Jessica Cale, Samantha Price, Brenton Spiteri, […]
More Tchaikovsky: The Dudok’s first volume of quartets
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is interesting firstly in that they boast beautiful vintage instruments and they perform Tchaikovsky with unwound gut brings nd period bows. It is the continuation of a journey begun in 2020 […]
Mark Anthony Turnage – Festen
Over the last few years, the Royal Opera has scored some considerable successes in presenting new operatic pieces with uncompromisingly difficult themes, sometimes inspired by great cinematic works – think Turnage’s Anna Nicole, Adès’ The […]
Two violas: Peter Mallinson on exploring the surprisingly fertile ground of music for two violas with fellow viola player Matthias Wiesner
Matthias Wiesner, Lynn Arnold & Peter Mallinson recording Two Violas: Regeneration at St Peter’s Church, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent in 2024 Viola players Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner have been exploring the perhaps surprising yet remarkably […]
The return of Alpesh Chauhan: fine Tchaikovsky on Chandos
The first disc of Alpesh Chauhn’s Tchaikovsky series on Chandos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was well received critically, including here at Classical Explorer. Here’s the promo video for Volume Two: The disc begins […]
Now THIS is Ligeti!
Here we have another group bursting onto the scene with a new recording of the Ligeti String Quartets. After having been thoroughly bowled over a couple years ago with the Quatuor Diotima playing these amazing […]
Welsh artists and Welsh stories: Welsh National Opera celebrates its 80th birthday with a 2024/25 season that manages to make a stir, even with insufficient funding
Edward Dick’s production of Puccini’s Tosca with Robert Hayward as Scarpia at Opera North in 2023 (Photo: James Glossop) Welsh National Opera celebrates its 80th anniversary during the 2024/25 season and whilst the current financial climate […]
More Novák on Naxos from Marek Štilec
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) was a composition student of Dvořák. His music blends folk music with a late-Romantic opulence which can include hits of Impressionism. It is a fascinating mix which nevertheless always seems to keep […]
Juho Pohjonen piano recital at Lincoln Center
This carefully curated program, presenting a journey from darkness to light, opened with music by Juho Pohjonen’s fellow Finn, Jyrki Linjama. Merging the spiritual with the secular, the bright, lightly dissonant opus begins with gently […]
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