Days after Sir John Eliot Gardiner flew in with his new team, the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir performed an identical programme at the Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Christophe Rousset (pictured). The performance was totally […]
Recorded on the Aix-en-Provence based label Rocamadour, this is an eclectic disc divided Ito four parts: “Réjooussez-vous”; “Un Enfant nous et né”; :Dans une Nuit silencieuse”‘; “Soyez Joyeux”. The label is new to me, but […]
The Arts Council was founded in 1946, in the words of Maynard Keynes, ‘to encourage the best British national arts, everywhere, and to do it as far as possible by supporting others rather than by […]