Schoenberg’s folk music and Stockhausen’s dead horse
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To honour the women by giving voice to their experience: pianist Deirdre Brenner introduces The Magdalene Songs which she brings to the Oxford International Song Festival
Deirdre Brenner (Photo: Andrej Grilc) From 1922 to 1996 more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders, these for-profit punitive institutions detained individuals against their will, […]
Ruth Leon recommends… The Kiss 1896
There are many artworks entitled The Kiss – Rodin, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc – but this one is remarkable for being the very first on-screen kiss. It happened in April 1896, between actors May Irwin and […]
French Night at the Proms!
PROMS: French Night with the Orchestre National de France Randall Goosby (violin); Orchestre National de France / Cristian Măcelaru (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.07.2025 Ravel Rapsodie espagnole (1895, 1907/08) Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in […]
Most fun music by Shostakovich
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A requiem in memory of a slain Ukrainian tenor
Some weeks ago, we reported the death in war of the renowned Ukrainian tenor Vladyslav Gorai. Two of his close friends, soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and baritone Vitaliy Bilyi came together in a memorial performance of […]
Exclusive: LA Phil is sued by unpaid employees
A class action has been filed in Los Angeles on behalf of Diane Alvarez and others who are claiming for unpaid wages. They also claim violations of the California Labor Code including failing to provide […]
Best Proms review so far…
… comes from our critic in residence, Alastair Macaulay: When you read about it beforehand, the Albert Hall Prom of July 21 – played by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgårds – seemed to […]
Dame Cleo Laine, Schoenberg singer
The great British jazz vocalist who died today, aged 97, was a singer of exceptional versatility. Among other modern classics she performer were the Seven Deadly Sins of Kurt Weill and Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold […]
%20Ali%20Wright.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Satisfying all round: Opera Holland Park's revival of its 2018 production of Verdi's La traviata showcases a trio of fine principals in a vividly realised production")
Satisfying all round: Opera Holland Park’s revival of its 2018 production of Verdi’s La traviata showcases a trio of fine principals in a vividly realised production
Verdi: La Traviata – Alison Langer, Ellie Edmonds – Opera Holland Park 2025 (Photo: Ali Wright) Verdi: La Traviata; Alison Langer, Matteo Desole, Michel de Souza, director: Rodula Gaitanou, conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren, City of […]
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