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Music & Arts / West Hill Radio Archives – Otto Klemperer / Pierre Monteux / Charles Munch
The splendid Music & Arts label has issued some mouth-watering titles to welcome 2008. The grateful Classical Source editor has fallen on some of the conductor-orientated selections for a brief...
Pictures at an Exhibition – Program Note by Leonard Slatkin
There are now about thirty-five orchestral versions of Pictures at an Exhibition, which Mussorgsky, of course, wrote as a suite for piano alone, but which Ravel made into a very...
The American Songbook in London [12 February-15 March 2008]
One of the highlights of last year’s cabaret scene in London – and these days there aren’t many – was the American Songbook month at the Jermyn Street Theatre, which...
Early Days: Genia Kühmeier
The Austrian soprano talks about a career that brings her to Covent Garden in the early months of 2008 and to the Wigmore Hall in April… How apposite that Genia...
Sharing Britten’s Dream: Rory Macdonald
Rory Macdonald, preparing A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Linbury Studio Theatre at Covent Garden, discusses his career and Britten’s operas… When Rory Macdonald was growing up in Glasgow music...
Film Review – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Sondheim’s musical directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter]
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” Film version of the musical thriller Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Screenplay by John Logan, based on the stage musical by...
Critics’ Circle Dance Awards 2007
Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards 2007: De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance – Celeste Dandeker The Dancing Times Award for Best Male Dancer – Jonathan Goddard (for performances...
Various Responses
The review by Peter Joelson and the questions raised therein, together with Bill Anderson’s analysis, have prompted the following responses. From Siva Oke, Somm: I have now been able to...
Balancing Act: Jonas Kaufmann on Being Alfredo in La Traviata
The German tenor discusses performing in opera and his role as Alfredo at Covent Garden… This is the first time that Jonas Kaufmann has appeared in Richard Eyre’s much-admired production...
Vaughan Williams Conducts His Symphony No.5: Somm CD Release Versus Private CD-R Copy
Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.5 conducted by the composer on 3 September 1952 Third Movement ‘Romanza’ Somm CD release vs. private CD-R copy In the commercial CD-release, Somm’s notes mention that...
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