Gstaad Menuhin Festival (2): Matinée des Jeunes Étoiles VI Georgii Moroz (violin); Marco Scilironi (piano). Gstaad Chapel, Gstaad, 1030am, 23.08.2025 Bartók Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, Sz 86 Moroz The Poet Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in […]
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in A-Major, Op. 72 (1946) Brahms Piano Quintet in F-Minor, Op. 34 (1865) Saanen Church, Switzerland, 21.08.2025 Saanen Church, Switzerland Dedicated to the great Beethoven Quartet, and premiered in Moscow […]
It used to be a fairly rare treat to hear Suor Angelica, but of late there have been a number of significant stagings. Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is rarer still, at least on these […]
PROMS Striggio & others Le Concert Spirituel / Hervé Niquet (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.08.2025 Striggio Mass, ‘Ecco sì beato giono’, preceded and interspersd with works by Benevolo, Coreccia, Massenzio & Palestrina. Motet, Ecce beatem […]
I was very taken by the se of aviations by Pachelbel heard in France recently Gerard de Wit’s performance of a Chaconne (with 12 variations) from the collection Hexachordium Apollinis. This disc, volume 3 of Mahew […]
PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse Intégales (1924/25) Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere) Ravel Boléro (1928) Stravinsky Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13) […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Les Délices de l’Âme Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badáová, soprano; Michaela Ambrosi, transverse flute; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 02.08.2025 Michel de la Barre Suite IX: […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire: Dutch Baroque plays Dutch Baroque Dutch Baroque (Ivan Iliev, violin; Beniamino Paganini, transverse flute; Anne-Linde Visser, cello; Gerard de Wit, organ/harpsichord/director). Église Saint Pierre d’Edon France, 02.08.2025 Hellendaal Sonata in […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire (3): Orpheus Britannicus Constantin Zimmerman (counter-tenor); Mike Fentross (theorbo). Église Saint-Martin d’Argentine, La Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025 Purcell If Music by the Food of Love; The Fatal Hour Comes On Apace; […]
Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L’Itinéraire (2): Divertimento al Cembalo Accademia Strumenale Italiana; Église Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Blanzaguet Saint Cybard, France, 02.08.2025 Haydn Divertimento in C, Hob..XV:C1 (published London, 1772) Mozart Divertimento […]
