At 20:00 on France Musique, Louis Langrée will conducts Les Siècles and the choir of Radio France from Montpellier in a score by Maurice Ravel, acquired last year by the Bibliothèque nationale.
Chanson galante, based on a poem by Armand Silvestre, dates from the turn of the 20th century. The chorus, wordless, is used as an additional instrument.
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The controversial US soprano, 75, went for the high notes in the closing number of her unprompted return yesterday to the Metropolitan Opera. Link here. The post Watch Kathleen Battle’s Met farewell appeared first on […]
If you know Friedrich von Flotow (1812-82) it’s via his opera Martha. But there is another side, on gloriously revealed here: two wonderful Piano Concertos. Despite his obviously Germanic name, von Flotow was educated in […]
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