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NEW YORK – With soprano Jana McIntyre offering a remarkable and tireless performance in the demanding title role, Leon Botstein led his American Symphony Orchestra and a strong supporting cast in a splendid, if noisy, account. The post...
St David’s Hall, Cardiff Conductor Tadaaki Otaka demonstrated his quiet authority and his instinctive way with Elgar during a concert that also included Britten and Elizabeth Maconchy As special relationships go, that of the BBC National...
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Wagner, Bruckner: Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Soddy (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London. 26.3.2023. (JR) Wagner – Prelude and ‘Was duftet doch der Flieder’ (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg);...
During the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, I often followed pianist Jean Muller’s impressive weekly online series devoted to all 32 Beethoven sonatas (available on YouTube). Later I learned that he had played an earlier Beethoven cycle between...
Berlioz’s original intentions for his only song cycle, Les nuits d’été, specified a mezzo or tenor and piano. When he orchestrated the songs, he transposed two songs downward (“Le spectre de la rose” and “Sur les...
When the BBC announced plans to close the UK’s only full-time professional chamber choir right before its century mark, 140,000 people signed a petition – and alternative funders stepped in. – BBC
“Some people believe students can only learn music well when they’re young. Financial problems meant I never had that chance as a child. But I had a dream, a passion and the conviction, and these beliefs did not deter...
Its students are deeply relieved. One said, “This school is my sanctuary from the stress of life as a Syrian refugee in Turkey. … I couldn’t bear the thought of something happening to it.” – NPR
“Reena Esmail acknowledged the irony that we were talking about her new choral work — ‘A Requiem for Water,’ inspired by California’s water crisis — in the midst of a deluge. She was wearing galoshes, as were many...
Royal Festival Hall/Queen Elizabeth Hall, London The London Philharmonic were superb in the UK premiere of Heiner Goebbels’ 15-movement work, which is studded with found recordings, while the Aurora Orchestra performed Héloïse Werner’s...
Coliseum, London Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world ENO’s artistic...
John Ireland (1879-1962) had already set two of war-poet Rupert Brooke’s (1887-1915) most memorable poems, The Soldier and Blow out, You Bugles, Blow , which were composed in early 1918. Later that year, he completed a third, Song (All...
Earlier this month we lost our gorgeous, irrepressible, acrobatic, fastidious, eccentric, and deeply sweet cat Bea. She was fourteen, and wildly vital almost the end. She joins Penelope and Maulina in the land of infinite treats. The...
Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Melbourne Opera Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Livestreamed on the from the Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, 24.2.2023. (JPr) Production: Director — Suzanne Chaundy Set designer — Andrew Bailey...
John Williams at the Oscars: Tommy Pearson (presenter), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Robert Baxter (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 24.3.2023. (SRT) John Williams – Music from Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry...
Royal Festival Hall, London; Bristol Cathedral A heckler heightened the atmosphere before a precise performance of Bach’s testing mass; and care home residents enjoyed a thrilling rendition of Beethoven’s Fifth in a truly resonant...
Gerald Fenech listens to orchestral music by German composer Paul Lincke. '... full of striking melodies, rapturous harmonic beauty and often exuberantly dance-like gestures ...'
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Beethoven and Mahler: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), The Bach Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London,...
The music — described to me as “earplugs-at-a-concert loud” by one frequent commuter — is the audio version of hostile architecture, where bumpy benches and spiky surfaces are employed to keep those who have nowhere else to go out of...
After three decades of financial difficulties and musician-vs.-management strife culminated in a nine-month strike, the board threw up its hands and dissolved the San Antonio Symphony. Here’s a deep dive on how things got to that...
PORTLAND, Ore. – Julian Perkins, the newly appointed artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra, is cooking up some fresh ideas for his first season. One of the dishes he has concocted is an opera pasticcio, basically a musical pie....
“The musicians of the San Antonio Philharmonic have reached their first collective bargaining agreement with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) union Local 23.” The contract for the fledgling ensemble is more flexible...
Rachmaninov: Nikolai Lugansky (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.3.2023. (JC) Rachmaninov – 10 Preludes, Op.23; Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op.42; Études-Tableaux, Op.39 Nikolai Lugansky’s all-Rachmaninov recital at the...
A new collection of recordings finally freed from the vaults offers a chance to hear one of opera's greatest artists sing Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz and more.