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Around thirty-six years before Handel composed his celebrated version of Semele, the subject had been taken up by John Eccles in an opera probably written by the end of 1706,...
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Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) was probably Sibelius’s most ardent champion in the United States at the time these broadcast performances were made. It was not always the case. On June 22...
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Artur Rodziński (1892-1958) is nearly forgotten today, seemingly living in the shade of better-known conductors working in America between the 1920s and '50s. In 1925 he was taken under the...
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For many, Die Walküre is the most approachable and human of the Ring dramas, and so it is not surprising that if any single instalment of Keith Warner’s production of...
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France Ellegaard (1913-1999) was a well-known Danish pianist who lived for the latter half of her life in Finland and took on Finnish nationality.  Much Finnish music from the mid-twentieth-century is presented...
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Not the least attraction of this latest release of David Matthews’s music is that all his nine (to date) Symphonies have now been commercially recorded (Nos. 1, 3 and 5...
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Five stars for sensational technical quality in each case. However, neither of these overlapping collections is quite the unqualified success that might have been expected. John Wilson and the strings...
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Howard Shelley’s attention to neglected nineteenth-century Piano Concertos continues with this fine recording of the first two by Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937).  Composed in 1882 and 1887 respectively they are very much in...
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As the young Siberian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov writes in the booklet, he came to the mighty Goldberg Variations in the autumn of 2018 through a meeting with the Belgian choreographer...
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“It all starts with one glimpse, you were here and there … I remember everything” - the opening of This is My Home Now by the Turkish singer, experimentalist, performer...
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