Mahler – Symphony No. 3. Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano); Tiffin Choirs Children’s Choir; London Symphony chorus; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15 January, 2025 The Simón Bolivar Symphony […]
This release celebrates 25 years of La Cetra Basel. deferred to as “greatest musical masterpiece of all time,” in the 19th century, Bach’s Mass in B minor remains.toweing msterpiece. As conductor Andrea Marcon says, “It […]
Francesco Scarlatti (ed. Webber)– Il Daniele nel lago de’ Leoni. Handel – Dicit Dominus, HWV 232. Armonico Consort;, Christopher Monks (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 10 January 2025 The rarest of the rare, perhaps, here: an oratorio […]
Are we a land without music? Julian Leeks asks that very question in his new podcast of that name from Sound World. There are, at the time of writing, six episodes covering a wide variety […]
Pierre Boulez – Éclat George Benjamin – Interludes and Aria from ‘Lessons in Love and Violence’ (World Premiere) Brahms – Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Boulez 100, Rattle 70: both nice and […]
I was privileged to hear Fuget rehearse Lully in the Versalles Chapel. It really is a phenomenal experience, and all credit for the label engineers here for capturing the famous acoustic so well for this […]
It is great to see attention falling on Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77). She was a pupil of Egon Wellesz and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ever-enterprising Lyrita label released a fabulous compact disc of […]
This is a tremendous coupling. We have been looking at quite a lot of Respighi of late (orchestral works from Wuppertal; orchestral transcriptions of Bach and Rachmaninnov from Liège; his operas Maria Egiziaca and La […]
In his role as Artist-in-Residence at the Dresdner Philharmonie, I heard Gautier Capuçon in the Kupturpalast in Dresden in September 2023. The orchestra was conducted by Kahchun Wong, the Principal Guest Conductor there and now […]
A real reminder of Massenet’s operatic genius here. This is the story of Salomé, later injected into operatic history books by Richard Strauss, but here set by Jules Massenet in a four-act opera with a […]
