Purcell: Dido & Aeneas in rehearsal – Michael Lafferty (Aeneas), Samantha Price (Dido) & ensemble – English Touring Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) As part of English Touring Opera‘s (ETO) Autumn season they are performing Purcell’s […]
The Mozartist’s projected seven-volume series of works from the “Sturm und Drang” period (early 1760s-late 1770s) is exemplified by this disc. The fire and high emotion of the cover painting says it all, Fire on […]
Songs We Carry – Patrick Rimes, Ana Silvera, Saied Silbak – Sinfonia Cymru Ladino song, Arabic music and Welsh folksong: Songs We Carry, Sinfonia Cymru’s latest cross-cultural project brings together singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ana Silvera, composer, […]
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Puccini: Tosca (Act Three) – Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu – Oxford International Opera (Photo: Chris Christodoulou) Puccini: Tosca; Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu, Bryn Terfel, director: P Burton-Morgan, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Marios Papadopoulos; Oxford International […]
The Rautio Piano Trio has previously impressed on the Resonus label: we covered two of the three trios of Beethoven’s Op. 1 on this disc, with the balance of Op. 1 (Op. 1/3), and the […]
This is a vital Elgar Violin Sonata performance – it rethinks that composer’s late masterpiece, presenting it with a clear undercurrent of disquiet in the shadow of war and loss. The Songs of Night and […]
Bizet: Carmen – Katie Bray, Oliver Johnston – Blackheath Halls Opera (Photo: Julian Guidera) Bizet: Carmen; Katie Bray, Oliver Johnston, Meeta Raval, Chuma Sijeqa, director: Harry Fehr, conductor: Christopher Stark, Blackheath Halls Opera; Blackheath HallsReviewed […]
Projection 2 (1951) Three Voices (1982) Triadic Memories (1981) This was a celebration of the centenary of maverick composer Morton Feldman (1926-87). The title, Unsettled Memory, refers to the composer’s way of subtly altering repetitions […]
Primary Fours in West Primary School, Paisley with NYCOS Artistic Director and Founder Christopher Bell (with the hat), NYCOS Singing Time presenter Holly Clelland (with the red hair) and acclaimed Scottish tenor Nicky Spence (with […]
Wagner’s Die Walküre – The London Opera Company at Smith Square Hall in 2023 Following sold out performances of Götterdammerung, Die Walküre [see my review] and Siegfried [see Tony’s review], the London Opera Company is […]
