Buxton Opera House festival time. Credit Buxton International Festival Having launched in 1979 with a production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in a version, rare at the time, that undid traditional cuts and transposition, the Buxton […]
le vase brisé: Hahn, Augusta Holmès, Liszt, Duparc, Lili Boulanger, Sir Paulo Tosti, Clemence de Grandval, Pauline Viardot, Bellini; Thomas Elwin, Lana Bode; VOCES8 RecordsReviewed 26 February 2025 A debut recital that combines an imaginative […]
Ravel, Fauré/Despax, Despax Emmanul Despax (piano). Bechstein Hall, London, 07.03.2025 Ravel Miroirs, M. 43 (1904/5) Despax The Sound of Music Fantasy (2020) Fauré Mélodies, Op. 7: Après un rêve (arr. Despax) Ravel Gaspard de la nuit, M 55 (1908) […]
Harry Christophers & The Sixteen in rehearsal – 2024 (Photo: Johnny Millar) Harry Christophers and The Sixteen embark on their 25th Choral Pilgrimage, Angel of Peace, this month. Starting in Croydon Minster on Monday 17 […]
This is a significant release from Naxos: Rachmaninoc’s Piano Sonatas No. 1 & 2, plus an arrangement of the orchestral tone-poem The Isle of the Dead. The First Sonata, D-Minor, Op. 28, dates from 1907/08. […]
I’m glad I acquired this enticing new album from the National Symphony Orchestra last November when it first came out – before the egomaniac in the White House sabotaged The Kennedy Center’s honor, credibility and […]
Mozart: The Magic Flute – Matthew Kellett – Charles Court Opera (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: The Magic Flute; Matthew Kellett, Alison Langer, Martins Smaukstelis, Peter Lidbetter, Eleri Gwilym, director: John Savournin/James Hurley, music director: David […]
Save our souls, still up to date? VENI ensemble: Save Art, Stay Libertine! VENI ensemble: Save our Souls, Concert Review The Eternal Return of Form: Ruins, Art, & Metaphysics Schubert Schwanengesang from New York: review […]
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This is exactly the sort of discovery that first got me “into” Classical music. Perhaps I’d find an obscure composer on a Turnabout LP (Koželuch sings to mind on one occasion), and the search for […]
