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 […]
Il Pomo d’Oro and counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orliński form a Theseus thread though a trio of discs we will examine in turn: Gluck’s opera Orfeo & Euridice with Orlinski (and Elsa Dreisig and Fatima Said) […]
Garsington’s Midsummer Magic at the Proms For its first outing to the Henry Wood Proms, Garsington Opera brought with it not only the luxury vehicle of the Phlharmonia Orchestra, but a crack team of soloists – […]
In response to Patricia Kopatchinskaja stunning Schonberg Concerto earlier this week at the Proms, we republish a report on a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall: Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s programming is always stimulating, but as she […]
PROM 67 Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, Shostakovich Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 09.09.2024 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ (1934) Schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1935/6) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in […]
Bayreuth Baroque Gala Concert: Bruno de Sá; Il Pomo d’Oro / Alfia Bakieva (violin / director). Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuh, 06.09.2024 Handel Gloria in Excelsis Deo, HWV deest (1706/07?) Vivaldi In furoe iusissimae irae, RV 626 (1720s) Handel Aci, […]
Tchaikovsky, Holst Behzod Abduraimov (piano); Maîtrise de l’Opéra du Rhin; Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor). Salle Erasme, Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, 5.9.2024 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op. 23 (1874/5) Holst […]
Those folks at Alpha do it again: a superb recording of a piece that really deserves better recognition. This time, it is Beethoven under their gaze: an oratorio – Beethoven’s only one – on Christ […]
