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Interviews by Imogen Tilden. “When English National Opera asked me to conduct Mozart’s Magic Flute in 1988, I said I’d do it with [director] Nick Hytner but nobody else. I’d been involved in many productions of the opera before, and I told Nick and designer Bob Crowley at our first meeting that I always wished […]
Gramophone magazine: From Byrd to Tippett, with recommended recordings of each work Please click HERE to continue reading.
Fiona Maddocks writes: Elgar’s only string quartet, a masterpiece of the chamber music repertoire premiered in 1918, is well established. That of his contemporary Delius, dating from a year earlier, is more of a rarity. The composer was discontented with his first (three-movement) attempt and reworked the opening movement and the wistful “Late Swallows” slow […]
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From the archives The 72-year-old conductor’s new season might be dull, but his crankiness certainly livened up the press conference. Continues HERE
Acclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale is fascinated by the concerto and how the role of the soloist has evolved from baroque times to now. In this Sunday Feature (exploring the theme of this year’s Free Thinking Festival – The One and the Many), Simon explores the complex dynamics between the soloist and orchestra, drawing parallels […]
Poignant dignity suffuses the prayers of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis in 1945. In settings by Philip Moore they become powerful testaments of faith in the darkest of times, sung brilliantly here by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, alongside Howells’s Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing and Tavener’s The Peace That Surpasseth Understanding. […]
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Just before his death the great maverick composer John Tavener, who played at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, told Ivan Hewett how he had previously cheated death many times. “You know, my consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment,” says John Tavener with a sudden, mischievous laugh. It’s a […]
First published in February 2014: LAWO Classics is a highly respected specialist recording label from Norway. Not to be confused with a well known audio console manufacturer, Vegard LAndaas and Thomas WOlden have just recorded their most ambitious project to date. Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by their new Chief […]
The Pacifica Quartet continue their survey of the complete quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, this time going back to the first four, dating from 1938 to 1949. As with last year’s Volume 1 (Quartets 5-8 plus one by Nikolai Miaskovsky), Cedille offers us two CDs for the price of one, with a bonus quartet by another […]
This performance of the symphony by the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop is one of considerable power, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE
Having only heard the ‘Inspired by Bach’ CD plus whatever I’ve heard on the odd movie soundtrack, I was wondering if anyone can give me any pointers towards other albums to start with? There’s obviously the enormous 90 CD box set available but it seems quite a big leap for someone who hasn’t heard much, […]
Brahms’s ubiquity on concert programmes means he’s a composer who needs more rescuing than most from the accreted myths not just of performance practice, but of how we think about the man and his music Continue reading HERE
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Originally published 2011 “A Stradivarius violin has been “recreated” using an X-ray scanner normally used to detect cancers and injuries, according to researchers. The US-based group used a computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanner on the 307-year-old instrument to reveal its secrets. They then used the data recovered to build “nearly exact copies”. MORE
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