Welsh National Opera was instrumental in bringing The Makropulos Affair (completed 1925, premiered the following year) to attention in the UK when they gave one of its
The revival of Annabel Arden’s production of La bohème for Welsh National Opera this autumn season neatly coincides with Floris Visser’s new production for Glyndebourne this summer
Hard on the heels of a programme celebrating the LPO’s 90th-anniversary with music it helped premiere, this one began with another offering for the Vaughan
The theme of migration marketed as ‘A Place to Call Home’ has been a handle for the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s current concert series. Two gigs
A smartly designed, extravagantly colorful program of twentieth- and twenty-first-century French music thematically linked to myth and fantasy. ‘Céléphaïs’, the first movement of Guillaume Connesson’s Les Cités
Belle Lurette was Offenbach’s final operetta, written concurrently with The Tales of Hoffmann, and remained incomplete at his death in 1880 but was finished by Delibes, so
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
Launy Grøndahl is here presented as a notable champion of the music of his compatriots.
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,
