Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque music featured highly this year, Lawrence Cummings and the AAM used just eight singers for their moving version […]
Britten: Death in Venice – Antony César (Tadzio), Frederico Saggese (Jaschiu) – Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson) It was one of those evenings about which you can say ‘I was there’, Wagner’s Die Walküre […]
The British actor and singer Olivia Hussey – co-star of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – died this weekend, her family have announced. View this post on Instagram A […]
In the last of the present Lebrecht Interviews on BBC Radio 3, I asked Itzhak Perlman for his thoughts on the present situation in Israel, where he was born and grew up. Itzhak gave a […]
We have received late notification of the death in November of the sound engineer Michael Brammann, winner of two Grammy awards though not – as so often happens – necessarily for his best work, Michael, […]
The pianist Jonathan Biss, in a New York Times essay, attempts to delineate the impact on a performer of playing the late works of the two great Vienna contemporaries. He does so in an attempt […]
Recorded on the Aix-en-Provence based label Rocamadour, this is an eclectic disc divided Ito four parts: “Réjooussez-vous”; “Un Enfant nous et né”; :Dans une Nuit silencieuse”‘; “Soyez Joyeux”. The label is new to me, but […]
Ben Platt & Cynthia Arrivo Before we say an un-fond farewell to 2024 we need something uplifting to counter the endless stream of bad news confronting us day by day. Here it is – two […]
Deutsche Grammophon and Operabase Collaborate on Classical Music Streaming with Integration of CueTV into STAGE+ Thursday 12 December 2024, Berlin, Germany | Copenhagen, Denmark Deutsche Grammophon’s world-class classical music streaming service STAGE+, and CueTV, a premier provider […]
Pablo Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance of J. S. Bach’s concerto for three keyboards and orchestra, staged at the United Nations building in New York. The soloists are Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Eugene Istomin and […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns illuminating & compelling: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on terrific form in Britten & Vaughan Williams at the BBC Proms")
