Susie Sainsbury theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Pegasus Opera sparks change with a tart two-hander and a woman on the edge; teenage brass players show their mettle; and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields...
Gerald Fenech listens to Sibylle Mahni play Mozart's horn concertos. 'There are recorded versions of these works aplenty, but this Prospero issue can certainly hold its ground with some of the best available at the moment.'
The point has been made before, but Mark Swed shows that it is worth repeating: "Both [LA Opera events] raised the question of what makes opera elite, as opposed to, say, a Lakers game. Wealth or privilege, say the lexographers...
Raksin, Ravel, Vaughan Williams: Bertrand Chamayou (piano), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Barbican Hall, London 18.4.2024. (JR) David Raksin – The Bad and the Beautiful – Suite Ravel – Piano Concerto...
PERSPECTIVE – Composer Matthew Aucoin's new Music for New Bodies, directed for the stage by Peter Sellars, is a “synesthetic song cycle” that reflects the interconnectedness of individuals and collective humanity with the wider natural...
There are now 26 million videos on YouTube and TikTok videos featuring Epidemic Sound music, and the company reports that its tracks receive 40 million plays daily on music streaming platforms. – Music Business Worldwide
With the introduction of the stand-alone audiobooks offering, Spotify is now able to pay lower music-licensing rates for the music-and-audiobook bundle, introduced in the U.S. in November 2023. – Variety
St John’s Smith Square, London Lee Reynolds’ reduced arrangements of Schoenberg and Mahler were convincing and involving The concerts of the Society for Private Musical Performances that Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils established in...
“The New York Philharmonic, which has been facing an uproar since a recent magazine article detailed allegations of misconduct against two players it tried and failed to fire in 2018, said on Thursday that it was commissioning an...
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Opera Rara joined with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder for this semi-staged performance of the original version of Verdi’s opera Twenty-five years separate the action in the prologue and first act of Verdi’s...
McCreesh/Stéphany/Spence/Foster-Williams (Signum, two CDs) Paul McCreesh’s historically informed performance of the composer’s greatest choral work has many gains but ultimately never really catches fire Paul McCreesh isn’t the first...
Although Masaaki Suzuki’s solo harpsichord Bach recordings span several decades, his technical and musical consistency seems to defy time, as borne out in The Art of Fugue. He continues to use a Willem Kroesbergen harpsichord modeled...
Back in the 1990s it was fashionable for classical musicians to call their concerts or CD releases “The X Project” or “The Y Project”. I thought this fad had long passed into history, yet apparently it refuses to die. Exhibit A: Yundi’s...
Following his magnificent 2001 recording of J.S. Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias for BIS, the Japanese harpsichordist/organist/conductor Masaaki Suzuki here offers more revelatory performances of some of Bach’s equally well...
Although specific events are not yet planned, in his role as artistic ambassador, Kellogg will engage with opera audiences through post-show Q&As, panel discussions, podcasts and other community events. – Seattle Times
“I will truly believe you mean your support and sympathy when I stop seeing ads featuring these people as star attractions at your concerts; when you offer the same protections and sympathy to victims of your own institutions that...
Gerstein/Mantashyan/Skanavi/Adès (Platoon, two CDs) Claude Debussy’s piano music written in the last few years of his life interspersed with works by ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet Claude Debussy completed his final...
Cellist and composer Niles Luther, 27, “is kicking off his residency by composing three musical arrangements to accompany the exhibition ‘Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo’ (feat. Takashi Murakami), which opened...
Wigmore Hall, London Murray Perahia’s long relationship with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields saw the conductor and pianist on stage to be part of Schumann’s Piano Quintet The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is currently marking...
Esdras Mugatik listens to music for accordion by British composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015). '... a magical capacity to differentiate levels of sound ...'
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The Sonata in C for cello and piano was the first of a series of works written for the Soviet cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich. Others that followed included the Three Suites for solo cello and the Symphony for cello and orchestra. The...
LOS ANGELES – Conductor Louis Langrée seems to have found a potent connection with the LA Philharmonic. His pairing of Ravel's Ma mère l’Oye and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony sparked one of the longest curtain-call ovations I've heard...
The funding received from Arts Council England (ACE) was cut by 35%, which led to WNO performances in Liverpool being cancelled in 2022, while operas in other English cities went ahead as planned. – BBC
The bank said more than 600 of its customers had come forward to report being scammed, losing an average of £332 each – with some losing £1,000. It added that 90% of the reported ticket scams started on Facebook. – BBC
Alma Rosé died in Auschwitz, and so her remains are not here, but her memory is present. Her uncle is a short walk away. Previously: Grieg, Feuchtwanger, Toch, Lubitsch, Korngold, Salieri, Bruckner, Liszt, Georg Trakl, Willa Cather and...
DIGITAL REVIEW – In his latest recital disc, In The Shadows, the eternally. curious baritenor Michael Spyres surveys some of the Bayreuth bard’s antecedents, also reflecting his own vocal history as he embarks on the Wagnerian...