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Puccini Suor Angelica (sung in English, traans. Amanda Holden). Cast; Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Corinna Niemeyer. Coliseum, London, 27.09.2024 Production:  Director: – Annelese Miskimmon  Designer – Yannis Thovaris  Lighting Designer – […]

Nordic Soundscapes: Sigfúsdóttir, Grieg, Sibelius Stephen Hough (piano); Johanna Eusanen (soprano); Tommi Hakala (baritone); YL Male Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Mathias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.09.2024 María Huld  Markan Sigfúsdóttir Oceans (2018, London […]

From the desk of PR2 agency in Dresden, Germany: Dresden receives federal funding for the construction of a Richard Wagner Academy and the establishment of an international center of excellence for Romantic orchestral and opera […]

Chopin, Schumann Lucas Debargue (piano); Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). Auditorium Patrick Devedjian, La Seine Musicale, Paris, 24.09.2024 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (1830)  Schumann Symphony No. 4 in […]

Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) famously studied with Schoenberg (the only Spanish composer to do so). He also made his base in England for a while, so his neglect in this country seems incomprehensibe. The […]

This is Jakub Jósef Orliński’s sixth album for Erato, and his post follows on from Classical Explorer‘s recent musings on Orliński’s Gluck Orfeo, The group is once more Il Pomo d’Oro. So, why “Beyond”? Orliński […]

Jommelli – a celebration. Fflur Wyn (soprano); Ambroisine Bré (mezzo); Hugo Brady (tenor); The Mozartists  / Ian Page (conductor). Wigmore Hall, 18.09.2024 Ricimero, re de’ Gato: Vidi il mar tutto in procella  Ezio: Se il […]

After yesterday’s post (Klassik unterim Hakenkreutz), this classic performance of Korngold seems relevant. Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) left Europe in the volatile mid-1930s and found fame in the US, specifically Hollywood (a fascinating upcoming disc […]

Music? You can’t destroy that … (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch) Christian Berger’s film, Musik unterm Hakenkreutz, a fascinating and disturbing documentary in equal parts, is dominated by the figure of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1923), who endured imprisonment […]

Contents: The Chosen: For What? by Hana Gubenko Foreign Masters: Max Volbers and Alexander von Heissen play music by foreign composers in Baroque England, by Colin Clarke The Chosen – for what?  Who wouldn’t want […]