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Salieri's Landlady: Bampton Classical Opera 2025
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2025 Antonio Salieri La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) (1773) Performances: The Deanery Garden, Bampto, Oxfordshire, Friday 18, Saturday 19 July Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 25 August The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex: Saturday 6 September London performance to be announced Bampton Classical Opera is delighted to announce
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem from Bergen
One of the great choral works, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem is often thought of as a humanist requiem, a work for the bereaved passages form teh Bible sleeked by Brahms himself. It takes a great performance to really plumb is depths: and Gardner gives us a wonderful modern performance (we'll
LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez
LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez Debussy, Neuwirth, Arcaro, Agar, Boulez London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Barbican Hall, 26.01.2025 Debussy Trois Images pour Ochestre (interspersed) Neuwirth Tombeau II Hommage à Pierre Boulez (World premiere, LSO co-commission) Arcaro Invention in Language of Child (LSO Panufnik commission, world premiere)
Filippo Gorini's Sonata for 7 Cities project
“The idea is simple: instead of constantly travelling from one concert venue to another, I want to focus on each city for a full month and offer as much as I can to the local community - including people who, for various reasons, are unable to visit concert halls -
Marschner: Piano Trios, Volume 1
Best known for his opera Der Vampyr (he was a leading composer in the period between Weber and Wagner), Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861). He was well travelled though Europe before he arrived in Dresden by become conduct at the Municipal theatre there. It was however in Magdeburg that Der Vampyr
On the Transmigration of Souls: welcome back Vladimir Jurowski!
On the Transmigration of Souls: Haydn, Kurtág, Adams. Anna Devin (soprano); Hanna Hipp (mezzo); Rupert Charlesworth (tenor); Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass); Tiffin Youth Choir; London Philharmonic Choir; Jonathan Green (sound designer); London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 18.01.2025 Haydn Mass in C, Hob. XXII:
The Simón Bolívar orchestra in London (2): Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky
Odisea: Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky Jorge Glem (Venezuela cuatro); Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gusavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.02.2025 Ricardo Lorenz Todo Tereno (2022) Gonzalo Grau Odisea (2022) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (1878) This was the second of two London concerts
The Simón Bolívar orchestra in London (1): Mahler's Third
Mahler – Symphony No. 3. Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano); Tiffin Choirs Children’s Choir; London Symphony chorus; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15 January, 2025 The Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela has certainly been in the news of late, with pianist Gabriela Monteiro particularly
Bach's B minor Mass from Basel
This release celebrates 25 years of La Cetra Basel. deferred to as "greatest musical masterpiece of all time," in the 19th century, Bach's Mass in B minor remains.toweing msterpiece. As conductor Andrea Marcon says, "It is a dream come true to have recorded this work for La Cetra's 25th
The 'other' Scarlatti: Francesco, and the lions' den
Francesco Scarlatti (ed. Webber)– Il Daniele nel lago de’ Leoni. Handel – Dicit Dominus, HWV 232. Armonico Consort;, Christopher Monks (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 10 January 2025 The rarest of the rare, perhaps, here: an oratorio by Francesco Scarlatti. And you thought Alssandro’s output was elusive. Francesco Scarlatti (1656-1721) was
Grace Williams Orchestral Works
It is great to see attention falling on Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77). She was a pupil of Egon Wellesz and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ever-enterprising Lyrita label released a fabulous compact disc of orchestral music in around 2004, collating LP performances from 1973 and 1979. You can read my
Elgar & Walton Cello Concertos from Gautier Capuçon
In his role as Artist-in-Residence at the Dresdner Philharmonie, I heard Gautier Capuçon in the Kupturpalast in Dresden in September 2023. The orchestra was conducted by Kahchun Wong, the Principal Guest Conductor there and now the Music Directo of Manchester's Hallé Orchestra (review). I mention this as Capuçon played the
Go, Lovely Rose: Songs of Roger Quilter
Firstly, what a beautiful disc this is, from each and every angle: the performer, one of the most experienced tenors active today, James Gilchist, with a superb pianist, Anna Tilbrook, captured in Chandos' trademark excellence of recording. Secondly, what sevice to music itself. The output of Roger Quilter (1877-1953) needs
A new collaboration: Operabase & DG
Deutsche Grammophon and Operabase Collaborate on Classical Music Streaming with Integration of CueTV into STAGE+ Thursday 12 December 2024, Berlin, Germany | Copenhagen, Denmark Deutsche Grammophon’s world-class classical music streaming service STAGE+, and CueTV, a premier provider of opera and concert streaming content under Arts Consolidated ApS (Operabase), are pleased
Sir Bryn Terfel in Donizetti's Elixir
I love Naxos' pithy summary of the plot of Donizetti's much-loved opera: Country boy Nemorino is determined to win the haughty Adina's heart, but she refuses to give him the time of day. Can Doctor Dulcamara's so-called ‘elixir of love' work its magic? Here's the details: Production: Director and Costume