From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage to the Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. Oppressed by Mussolini’s racial laws, he migrated to the US in 1939, his visa sponsored by Jascha Heifetz….
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Gniezno Cathedral and Lake Jelonek, Poland, where Mikołaj Zieleński worked(Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0/WikiMedia) Little is known of Mikołaj Zieleński beyond the fact that he published a major collection of works in 1611. On 14 August […]
So vociferous were the boos last night for Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo that, before Elisabeth’s third-act aria Tu che le vanita’, conductor Philippe Jordan speared a white cloth with his baton […]
Christie’s London have a couple of interesting Wagner lots coming up next month. The first draft of the Tannhäuser libretto is expected to make six figures. Also under the hammer is a draft fragment for […]
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