The stellar trio of Diana Damrau, Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch had a great success with their tour and recording of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, and
When Franz Schreker composed Irrelohe in the early 1920s (premiered 1924) he had already achieved considerable success in Germany with a number of operas. But, although he
Two years ago, a concert given by the Czech Philharmonic and their music director Semyon Bychkov would have been a very hot ticket, something you
Ferenc Erkel, virtually unknown outside Hungary, stands proud in the nation’s musical history as the composer of the national anthem and several nationalist operas. Bank
This is a welcome revival of Phelim McDermott’s colourful, penetrating staging of Mozart and Da Ponte’s most complex, enigmatic and mysterious collaboration. Set in and
A century has passed since Alban Berg finished composing Wozzeck; yet it can still seem remarkably modern, as it did in this concert performance. Shorn
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide contains some very fine music without convincing as operetta or musical. It has been
Few bona fide keyboard titans play every Prokofiev Piano Sonata, and only a small cohort
This Fourth Symphony of Tchaikovsky first appeared on a five-disc 78rpm set in 1949, but
Launy Grøndahl is here presented as a notable champion of the music of his compatriots.
It seems reasonable that Peter and the Wolf should be narrated by a BBC announcer,
Half a century and more ago Anatole Fistoulari’s (1907-95) name appered on many a recording
It is impossible to take in the scale and thoroughness of what happened in Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech), the fortress town in Moravia that Nazi
Here are three reviews (the first two from Jane Bagot, the last from Colin Marston) of concerts that took place as part of Cumbria Opera
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D, Op.35; Sérénade mélancolique, Op.26; Valse-Scherzo, Op.34; Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op.42* Julia Fischer (violin), Russian National Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Beethoven – The Cello Sonatas; Seven Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe’ from Die Zauberflöte, WoO.46 Enrico Mainardi (cello) & Carlo Zecchi (piano) Recorded at
Michel van der Aa – Time Falling Kate-Miller Heidke (singer), Netherlands Chamber Choir, Michel van der Aa & Thijs de Vlieger Recorded at Exalto Studios,
Brahms – Violin Concerto in D, Op.77 David Oistrakh (violin), Orchestre Nationale de la Radiodiffusion Français, Otto Klemperer Recorded at the Salle Wagram, Paris, 17-19th
