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For those looking for a modern-instrument performance of Mozart’s Requiem (in the Süßmayr completion), look no further. If ever there was an example of Jansons’ art, this is it. There will be adherents of Jansons’ […]

Odisea: Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky Jorge Glem (Venezuela cuatro); Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gusavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.02.2025 Ricardo Lorenz Todo Tereno (2022)  Gonzalo Grau Odisea (2022)  Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 […]

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 […]