Alexandra Dovgan (Photo: Vladimir Volkov) Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito, Piano Concerto No. 20, Bach: Toccata in E minor, Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor; Alexandra Dovgan, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Robin Ticciati; Le Piano Symphonique at KKL […]
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David Allinson and The Renaissance Singers at Holy Sepulchre London, The Renaissance Singers is a chamber choir with a difference. One of London’s leading non-professional vocal groups, for over 80 years it has specialised in […]
People have been going up for a very long time. So the music here fittingly spans some 500 years, from Tallis to Cheryl Frances-Hoad, music that celebrates a new day and the hope (and anticipation) […]
This is only the second disc containing music by Alberto Ginastera (1916-83) that has been considered here on Classical Explorer: previously, Camerata Bern on Alpha included his Concerto for Strings on they release Plaiirs illuminées. […]
Statue of 8th-century Japanese Master Kūkai The 8th-century Japanese Master Kūkai journeyed across the sea to Tang-China to study Esoteric Buddhism under the revered monk, Master Huiguo. Returning to Japan in the year 806, he […]
Built as The New Grand Theatre of Varieties in 1900 by a consortium of music-hall artistes, the Grand in Clapham has been through various vicissitudes including periods as a cinema and bingo hall, going dark for […]
The Hradec Králové Philharmonic takes on Josef Bohuslav Foerster’s Second Symphony here: quite the challenge, and one taken with aplomb. We explored Foerster’s First Symphony on Naxos here. Wagner and Debussy are two oft-mentiooed composer […]
We have enjoyed the Modernist music of Enno Poppe (born 1969, Hemer, Germany) before – The Music of Enno Poppe (Fett, Ich kann mich an nichts errinern), Prozession, and as conductor in Berlin (music by […]
For his debut disc, saxophonist Luis González Garrido has chosen a succession of works that are fashioned from a single cell, or gesture. This process is even explicit in the title of the second piece, […]
