.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Britten's War Requiem: Edward Gardner takes an uncompromising & severe view softened by the poetic attention to the words from soloists in London Philharmonic Orchestra's season opener")
Britten: War Requiem – Edward Gardner, Benjamin Appl, Paul ApplebyLondon Philharmonic Orchestra (Photo: Andy Paradise) Britten: War Requiem; Natalya Romaniw, Paul Appleby, Benjamin Appl, London Philharmonic Choir, Tiffin Boys Choir & Girls Choir, London Philharmonic […]
It has been a busy week for live CD launches. On Wednesday harpists Oliver Wass and Lise Vandermissen had a joint launch at St Pancras Clocktower for Wass’s Musica per arpa on Tactus and Vandermissen’s […]
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas in rehearsal – Michael Lafferty (Aeneas), Samantha Price (Dido) & ensemble – English Touring Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) As part of English Touring Opera‘s (ETO) Autumn season they are performing Purcell’s […]
The Mozartist’s projected seven-volume series of works from the “Sturm und Drang” period (early 1760s-late 1770s) is exemplified by this disc. The fire and high emotion of the cover painting says it all, Fire on […]
Songs We Carry – Patrick Rimes, Ana Silvera, Saied Silbak – Sinfonia Cymru Ladino song, Arabic music and Welsh folksong: Songs We Carry, Sinfonia Cymru’s latest cross-cultural project brings together singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ana Silvera, composer, […]
%20(c)%20Chris%20Christodoulou.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Not quite the sum of its parts: starry casting with Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu & Bryn Terfel fails to lift Oxford International Opera's debut with Puccini's Tosca")
Puccini: Tosca (Act Three) – Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu – Oxford International Opera (Photo: Chris Christodoulou) Puccini: Tosca; Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu, Bryn Terfel, director: P Burton-Morgan, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Marios Papadopoulos; Oxford International […]
The Rautio Piano Trio has previously impressed on the Resonus label: we covered two of the three trios of Beethoven’s Op. 1 on this disc, with the balance of Op. 1 (Op. 1/3), and the […]
This is a vital Elgar Violin Sonata performance – it rethinks that composer’s late masterpiece, presenting it with a clear undercurrent of disquiet in the shadow of war and loss. The Songs of Night and […]
Bizet: Carmen – Katie Bray, Oliver Johnston – Blackheath Halls Opera (Photo: Julian Guidera) Bizet: Carmen; Katie Bray, Oliver Johnston, Meeta Raval, Chuma Sijeqa, director: Harry Fehr, conductor: Christopher Stark, Blackheath Halls Opera; Blackheath HallsReviewed […]
Projection 2 (1951) Three Voices (1982) Triadic Memories (1981) This was a celebration of the centenary of maverick composer Morton Feldman (1926-87). The title, Unsettled Memory, refers to the composer’s way of subtly altering repetitions […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Britten's War Requiem: Edward Gardner takes an uncompromising & severe view softened by the poetic attention to the words from soloists in London Philharmonic Orchestra's season opener")
