Two very rare videos from our archives.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of his death and no orchestra that he worked with – Berlin, Vienna, Philharmonia – has bothered to commemorate it.
Listen to this account of the Tannhäuser overture. Does any other conductor come close to his hypnotic grip?
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Sothebys are selling a trove of 1,500 love letters between the Vienna-born Oxford composer and musicologist Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) and the poet Elizabeth Mackenzie (1921–2021), Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall. Wellesz lived in ‘a very […]
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Mishka Rushdie Momen (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega) Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen will be making her debut at the 10th anniversary edition of the London Piano Festival, which runs at Kings Place from 9 to 14 October […]
%20Copy.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Prom 24: Vividness & virtuosity in an astonishing danced staging of Purcell's The Fairy Queen with Les Arts Florissants & Mourad Merzouki's Companie Käfig,")
Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Les Arts Florissants, singers from Le Jardin des Voix, dancers from Companie Käfig – BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ Chris Christodoulou) Purcell: The Fairy Queen; Les Arts Florissants, singers from Le Jardin […]
,%20Hilary%20Cronin%20(Melissa)%20and%20Rowan%20Pierce%20(Oriana)%20Credit_%20Genevieve%20Girling%20(1).jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Musically, an evening of complete enjoyment: Olivia Fuchs's playful 'Love Island' setting for Handel's Amadigi in Buxton")
