Staging a long, serious opera such as Zelmira (1822) based on myth and ancient history presents quite a challenge on its own terms, to keep an audience engaged with its plot twists and extensive arias. […]
Joubert: Jane Eyre – Laura Mekhail (Jane) – Green Opera at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre – (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) John Joubert: Jane Eyre; Laura Mekhail, Hector Bloggs, Lawrence Thackeray, Alexander Semple, director Eleanor Burke, conductor […]
Matilda Lloyd (Photo: Geoffroy Schied) When I met up for coffee with Matilda Lloyd last month, she was laden down with five trumpets, ranging from a piccolo trumpet to a flugelhorn, all of which come […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (2): Les Éléments Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml (shawm / director). 9 pm, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025 Air Anonymous O che […]
Tama Matheson as Beethoven in his play, Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven Tama Matheson: Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven; Tama Matheson, Jayson Gillham, Quartet Concrète, English Chamber Choir; Opera Holland ParkReviewed 6 August […]
Itinéraire Baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (1): Handel and his Contemporaries La Risonanza. 12 noon, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025 Michel Correte Organ Concerto in F, Op. 25/6. Handel […]
It’s interesting to see a resurgence in Tchaikovsky’s relatively neglected Orchestral Suites in a smattering of recent new recordings. Newcomer Stanislav Kochanovsky recorded the Third with the NDR Radio Philharmonic for his debut on harmonia mundi, […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (1): Opening Concert, Pirame et Thisbé A Nocte Temporis; Reinoud van Mechelen (high tenor / director). Église Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité, Périgord, France, 31.07.2025 Clérambault Cantatas: Apollon; La Jaloux; Pirame et Tisbé Jacquet de […]
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Carl Heinrich Arnold (1793-1874) – String quartet in the Spohr house, c. 1840 CC BY-NC-SA © Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e.V., Spohr Museum Kassel Two years older than Weber, as a violin virtuoso hailed as a […]
.jpeg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "BBC Proms - Classics, bon-bons and an engagingly fresh account of an enduring masterpiece, Nil Venditti conducts BBC National Orchestra of Wales")
Great British Classics – BBC Singers, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nil Venditti – BBC Proms 2025 (Photo: BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Great British Classics: Walton, Vaughan Williams, Coleridge-Taylor, Britten, William Mathias, John Rutter, Avril […]
