From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
I am generally resistant to albums that impose an external theme on unrelated pieces of music from different places and times. In this case, it is eastern Europe, 1814 to 2024….
This album comes into its own with the present Ukraine war…
Read on here.
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Page from the edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497 Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon, Jean-Philippe Rameau:Pygmalion; Anna Dennis, Rachel Redmond, Katie Bray, Thomas Walker , Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; BarbicanReviewed by […]
The renowned British lute and theorbo player, David Miller, has died at the age of 72. For four decades Dai – as he was universally known – played continuo on theorbo, chitarrone and baroque guitar […]
From the Times’s full-page obit of Zamira Menuhin: Speaking of how Yehudi Menuhin’s desire to change the world never ended, she told how he was patron of more than 200 charities. “He just couldn’t say […]
