
London Philharmonic/Edward Gardner, with Steven Osborne
Edward Gardner’s ongoing Elgar Symphony cycle at the Royal Festival Hall was never intended to include the sketches for the Third Symphony as elaborated by
Edward Gardner’s ongoing Elgar Symphony cycle at the Royal Festival Hall was never intended to include the sketches for the Third Symphony as elaborated by
New London Opera Group’s presentation of Vaughan Williams’s Hugh the Drover is a welcome and presumably late tribute to the composer in his 150th-anniversary year in 2022.
Franz Welser-Möst conducted the two movements of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony in seamless alternation with three from Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite, an attempt to show how
Eric Lu doesn’t give much away in his performance style, which is formal and a bit stern, from a serious young man who would not
If, in some sense, Schubert’s three song-cycles can be taken as a trilogy (even if not intended as such when composed) then the first, Die schöne Müllerin (1823)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Catamorphosis, is – in the composer’s words – inspired by “the fragile relationship we have to our planet” and its core “revolves around
The flood of new releases from this source shows no sign of abating. And given
Two years ago I was much taken with Martyn Brabbins’s Fifth, perhaps the finest release
It was Edward Gardner’s daring idea to open his London Philharmonic tenure with a concert
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
I spent ten days at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, which brings performers, teachers and students together, enabling music-lovers to experience a wide
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,