_Rémy%20Brès-Feuillet_Yuriy%20Mynenko_©_Clemens%20Manser_G.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Bayreuth goes to Venice: Cavalli's Pompeo Magno the centrepiece of the 2025 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival")
Handel’s Flavio at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in 2023Rémy Brès-Feuillet (in bath), Yuriy Mynenko – (Photo: Clemens Manser) The Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, based at the 18th century Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, will be […]
London Sinfonietta – Love Lines – Electra Perivolaris Love Lines: Judith Weir, James MacMillan, Peter Maxwell Davies, Electra Perivolaris; London Sinfonietta; Kings PlaceReviewed 6 December 2024 Contemporary Scottish music in a programme centred on Peter […]
Nice to see a disc celebrating Eudice Shapiro. A pupil of the great Efrem Zimbalist, long-lived Shapiro (1914-2007) shines on this release. She was known as an orchestral and quartet leader, and here we hear […]
Benjamin Appl in recital in 2020 Baritone Benjamin Appl has been having a busy time of it in the recording studio and has three contrasting albums out on Alpha Classics between now and May 2025, […]
Daniel Barenboim is a living miracle. e seemed to remain boyish in his looks for decades and decades after was humanly fair; he is equally at home the piano stool as on the podium. He […]
This post forms the middle bit of a Porpora sandwich. Back in September (which feels ages ago now!) I covered Ncolai Porpora’s Iphigenie in Aulide at Bayreuth Baroque with Christophe Rousset conducting Les Talens Lyriques […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Engaging zest: Mike Leigh's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance returns to ENO with a cast mixing innocence & experience")
Gilbert & Sulllivan: The Pirates of Penzance – The Pirates: William Morgan, Gaynor Keeble, Henry Neill, & chorus – English National Opera, 2024 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Isabelle Peters, […]
A Christmas tale to warm the heart here. Debbie Wiseman and Alan Titchmarsh isn’t a combination that immediately springs to mind, but here it is, and a very successful one at that. Titchmarsh has a […]
The Songs of Thomas Pitfield: James Gilchrist, Nathan Williamson; Divine ArtReviewed 3 December 2024 Nearly 30 songs by a composer whose life almost spanned the 20th century. Full of lyrical impulse and often setting his […]
Described, accurately, by the notes as a “Parisian noir,” Il tabarro,” intended as the first of Puccini’s Trittico (a cycle of three opera designed to be performed in on evening).We reviewed the ENO incarnation of […]
