The first movement of Bach’s Trio Sonata No 6 in G, BWV 530 A new recording of Bach Trios by Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Chris Thile (mandolin) and Edgar Meyer (double bass) is due for release on the Nonesuch label in April. The video below gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the recording sessions. This isn’t the […]
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Originally published July 2015 This full-blooded and stylish recording captures the melodrama of Salieri’s largely unperformed opera, says Rupert Christiansen Continues HERE
You couldn’t ask for a more “authentic” performance of Grieg than one by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, which Grieg himself conducted at one time. There are silkier performances of Peer Gynt, Op. 23, than this one, but few that seem to have such a sense of Grieg’s much-vaunted Norwegian soul. The chilly yet rich blue […]
Gustav Mahler said, ‘My symphonies represent the contents of my entire life.’ http://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/top-10-mahler-symphonies
John T. Scott writes ….. Rousseau is best known as the author of philosophic works, but he was a musician and musical theorist before he burst onto the European literary scene with his First Discourse. While he earned celebrity as an anti-philosophical philosopher, he continued to consider music as his primary vocation and […]
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 […]
Geoffrey Norris writes: Coming in at No 3 behind Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s C major String Quintet of 1828 has long been a favourite on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, with 72 guests selecting it as a castaway essential since the programme started in 1942. It is the Adagio […]
Andrés Orozco-Estrada directs the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s ever-popular New World Symphony It’s one of the most frequently performed symphonies of all, the appeal of Dvořák’s New World Symphony never seems to fade. Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra ….. Please click HERE
Wang plays the Fazıl Say / Arcadi Volodos Paraphrase on Mozart’s ‘Alla Turca’ Yuja Wang has been playing the Say/Volodos paraphrase on Mozart’s Rondo ‘Alla Turca’ for a while now, but recently she performed it in front of the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, which means that we can all now marvel at her virtuosity in […]
For well over a decade, Mariss Jansons has been recording Gustav Mahler’s symphonies in two separate cycles, one with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on its RCO Live label, and the other with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on BR Klassik. He recorded this RCO performance of the Symphony No. 7 in E minor in […]
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Geoffrey Norris of The Daily Telegraph: “This performance of Shostakovich’s final symphony testifies both to Bernard Haitink’s searching way of interpreting the Russian composer and to the orchestra’s ready appreciation of the emotional range that the Fifteenth embraces. We might not fully understand the allusions that Shostakovich weaves in, but, when it […]
The aim of the Study Group is: To provide a distinctive long-term forum offering opportunities for those with an interest in music and philosophy to share and discuss work, in the hope of furthering dialogue in this area. Our Third Annual Conference was held at King’s College London, 19-20 July 2013. Our 4th Annual […]
The Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232, assembled from bits and pieces over some years, coheres in its final form in ways that perhaps only the composer understood. This recording by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Stephen Layton has been road-tested in performances around Britain […]
Tom Service writes: There’s a lot more to the way Rachmaninov’s third and final symphony works than the simple attractiveness of its tunes Continue HERE
Complete with the original Gramophone reviews of 50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available Continues HERE
Co-Artistic Directors of the LCO Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames talk about how the orchestra’s new sample library, LCO Strings, is giving composers new worlds of sound to explore Continues HERE
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of the very best organ music and performances, including Mozart in playful mood, Rachmaninov a la Bach, and a vivid and spectacular transcription of Saint-Saëns’s orchestral showpiece, Danse Macabre. Details HERE
Posterity is cruelly haphazard towards composers. A lucky few geniuses are recognised in their own lifetime. Beethoven, Josquin, Wagner, Mozart, all entered posterity wearing their laurels, and they stayed there, serene and untouchable. Others are not so lucky. Some fine composers wait decades or even centuries after their death to be rediscovered, like Charpentier. Some […]
The perfect introduction to Brahms’s music, featuring recordings by Nelson Freire, Riccardo Chailly, Marin Alsop, Grigory Sokolov, Artemis Quartet, Emil Gilels, Julia Fischer, Itzhak Perlman, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and many more Dip in and out HERE
The War Requiem challenges us to think about what it is we ask people to do when we send them to war, writes conductor Marin Alsop Please click HERE to continue
Angela Hewitt seamlessly draws Liszt’s ideas together in a continuous, flowing musical landscape, says Geoffrey Norris Continues HERE
Gramophone recommends the greatest recordings from Rattle’s tenure as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic MORE