Tabea Debus (Photo: Kaupo Kikkas) Recorder player extraordinare Tabea Debus is joining York Early Music Festival as guest artistic advisor. She joins the current team of artistic advisers Lindsay Kemp (music writer and producer), Peter […]
Trio Musae A new partnership between Burgh House, in Hampstead, and Chamber Studio will create a residency programme for emerging chamber ensembles at Burgh House. Selected string quartets and trios will take part in a […]
The young German-American cellist Daniel Dorn (born 2008) has just started studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Guy Johnston. He began playing the cello at the age of three, and at ten, he […]
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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 […]
.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")
