Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Photo: Felix Grünschloß) Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers has a fascinatingly international history, the work was written to a French libretto by a France-based American, premiered in German […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Fauré is the French composer the world finds hardest to dislike. While Debussy means custard to some tastes and Ravel an acute form of mustard, their senior colleague […]
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo has issued this statement: It is with great sadness that we learned of the brutal death of Franck Lavogez, solo bassist of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, which occurred on August […]