From an interview with Tarmo Peltokoski at the Granada Festival:
‘A personal passion of mine is the music of Vaughan Williams, the great English composer, which is not really played anywhere. So we shall be exploring that a little bit…’
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The recent Göttedämmung at the Royal Festival Hall was due to feature Brindley Sherratt as Hagen. It was not to be (although there was a luxury stand-in); in compensation, we have this remarkable disc for […]
Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le prophète; John Osborn, Elizabeth DeShong, Mané Galoyan, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée, Lyons Opera Chorus, Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône, Mark Elder; LSO Live (with Palazzetto Bru Zane)Reviewed 12 […]
The new production at Arena di Verona has been totally detached from Verdi’s story of Jewish exiles in Babylon. The costumes are space suits, the stage set looks like a post-modern, peripheral bus terminus and […]
