Sunday, 31 January 2016

Korngold Die tote Stadt Vogt Nylund Eiche Marzena Diakun

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Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt in Paris last night. The principals, Klaus Florian Vogt, Camilla Nylund, and Markus Eiche have been...
Saturday, 30 January 2016

Gorgeous Georgia - gemlike Tbilisi Opera House

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Tbilisi in Georgia knows the value of culture and of the arts.  The refurbished Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre looks like a fabulous j...
Friday, 29 January 2016

Gustav Holst's Falstaff - At the Boar's Head

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John Tomlinson, Philip Langridge.  Felicity Palmer, Elise Ross and David Wilson-Johnson. the greatest English singers of their time, all...
Thursday, 28 January 2016

NEW Luigi Nono : a Composer in Context

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At last, the long-awaited publication of Luigi Nono: a composer in context , by Carola Nielinger-Vakil,(Cambridge University Press, 361 p...
Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Hommage à Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris

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Hommage à Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie in Paris, live last night, now online HERE. Though there are live performances, this is mu...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Berlioz meets George Antheil The Spectre of the Rose

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Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Dance, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz, the music upon which Fokine created the balle...
Monday, 25 January 2016

Barbican 2016-2017 - Jonas Kaufmann 10 day Residency

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Jonas Kaufmann will be Artist in Residence at the Barbican, London.  For TEN days, during February 2017, Kaufmann will give his first ma...
Saturday, 23 January 2016

Berlioz Romeo and Juliet - Andrew Davis BBC SO Barbican

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A foreunner of the Shakespeare 400 marathon to come, Hector Berlioz Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette)  Op 17 (1839)  with Andrew D...
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François-Xavier Roth LSO Wagner Berg Mahler 5 Barbican

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François-Xavier Roth conducted the London Symphony Orchestra  in Wagner, Berg and Mahler at the Barbican, London,. All music is "mo...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

10,000 voices Ode to Joy

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Ten thousand voices in unison, singing Beethoven Ode to Joy.  A clip from the legendary concert in Sendai, Japan, on December 17th  2010...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016

Oramo BBCSO Butterworth Anna Clyne Elgar

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Sakari  Oramo's Elgar credentials are beyond reproach. With the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, he led the Elgar 150th birthd...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

Schubert's Fidelio - Die Freunde von Salamanka

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Schubert's Fidelio ?  Die Freunde von Salamanka D326, 1815. Schubert was only eighteen when it was written, yet already it was his s...
Friday, 15 January 2016

Liszt and Loewe Lieder RAM Song Circle

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The Ballads of Carl Loewe and Franz Liszt feature in the recital on Sunday 17th January (3pm) at the Wigmore Hall.  The Royal Academy of ...
Thursday, 14 January 2016

Boulez, Birtwistle and Max - the famed Boulez at 80 concert

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Now available on BBC I player, the famous concert "Boulez at 80" where Boulez, Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies al...
Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Benjamin Appl Schubert Wigmore Hall

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Luca Pisaroni and Wolfram Rieger were due to give the latest installment in the Wigmore Hall's complete Schubert songs  series, but ...