From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — think Emma Kirkby in a John Le Carre novel. Given that Kirkby and Co had covered most of the Baroque, it was hard to see where an unknown from Brno would go….
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Yale School of Music has a new assistant dean. That ought to be good for academic and playing standards, right? No, says, Yale, she here for feelgood purposes. We’re excited to announce the appointment of […]
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