Early and late feature heavily in this year’s selection, but in the middle a pair of individual performances stand out. The white-hot dramatic impetus of John Osborn’s account of the title role in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète […]
Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque music featured highly this year, Lawrence Cummings and the AAM used just eight singers for their moving version […]
Britten: Death in Venice – Antony César (Tadzio), Frederico Saggese (Jaschiu) – Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson) It was one of those evenings about which you can say ‘I was there’, Wagner’s Die Walküre […]
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Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story; Choir of Merton College, Oxford, The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, Owen Chan & Francois Cloete (organ), Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas (conductor); DELPHIAN Edward Nesbit: Nativity, Wycliffe Carols, […]
Signed handwritten draft of Thomas Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush with original title Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Concerto grosso in F minor Op.1 No.8; Alessandro Stradella: Ah! troppo e ver, Sonata di viole ‘Concerto-concerto grosso’, Caroline Shaw: The Holdfast, Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto […]
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Vom Himmel hoch – Luther’s hymn in a 1541 songbookUsed by Bach in his Magnificat in E Flat Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Alessandro Stradella, Purcell, Bach: Magnificat in E Flat; Ciara Skerath, Katie Bray, Jess Dandy, James Way, […]
Verdi: Rigoletto – Bernardo Medeiros (Rigoletto)Palm Beach Opera (Photo: Coastal Click Photography) Opera Up-Close: Unveiling the dramatic process with Paul Curran; Paul Curran, Palm Beach Opera; The Cornelia T. Bailey Opera Center; Palm Beach, Florida14 […]
There is a week celebrating the viola at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead, as it hosts the Tertis and Aronowitz International Viola Competitions from 19 to 26 January 2025. Named for two great English violists, […]
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Temple Music has announced an intriguing range of events for 2025, with everything from Rameau and Wagnerian opera to song recitals from Helen Charlston and Roderick Williams. Things kick of in January 2025 with Handel’s […]
