Hummel: Quintet, Bertini: Grand Sextuor; Sestetto Classico; MDGReviewed by Andreas Rey (22 September 2025) Two large-scale chamber works from the fringes of the repertoire from composers sitting between Mozart and Beethoven in fresh, idiomatic performances […]
The award-winning English cellist Richard Harwood is playing out his final month in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra before making a change of direction. He writes: A couple of months ago, I reached the sad decision […]
A hostile reception was expected for Lotte de Beer’s new Carmen at the Volksoper, where the audience is treated to a frumpish heroine dressed head-to-toe in black and having little by way of the familiar […]