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Wigmore Hall Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.5 in C minor, op.10 no.1 Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.31 in A-flat major, op.110 Schubert – Pia...

Wigmore Hall Mahler – Frühlingsmorgen Hans und Grethe Erinnerung Scheiden und Meiden Strauss – Traum durch die Dämmerung Nachtgang B...

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Cassandre – Anna Caterina Antonacci Chorèbe – Fabio Capitanucci Enée – Bryan Hymel Didon – Eva-Maria ...

From Bayreuth, 1927, conducted by Karl Muck, with the celebrated Parsifal bells, melted down for the war effort in 1943 and never replaced:...

An apt metaphor for and precursor to Monsalvat? Our hearts are thrilled with compassion, for it is old Jehovah himself who is making read...

There are many reasons, of course, for me to look forward to Parsifal at Bayreuth this summer, not least amongst which would be the s...

Wigmore Hall Debussy – Suite bergamasque Ondine Préludes , Book II : ‘Ondine’, ‘La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune’, ‘Feux d’art...

Susanna (Filipa van Eck) and Figaro (Bradley Travis) Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music Count Almaviva – Morgan Pearse Counte...

Having recently heard Sir Colin Davis conducted the Berlioz Grande messe des morts made me recall his astounding Missa solemnis at the Pro...

Wigmore Hall Purcell – The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation , Z 196 Berlioz – La mort d’Ophélie , op.18 no.11 Schubert – Heiß mich nicht r...

As I emerge from the morass of bureacracy surrounding university exams, the principal task of the summer is to work on the manuscript f...

St Paul’s Cathedral Grande messe des morts (Requiem), op.5 Barry Banks (tenor) London Philharmonic Choir London Symphony Chorus Lo...

After Nigel Lowery's dreadful assault upon Gluck , I felt the need of something more wholesome. Of course the staging would be unlikely ...

Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House Clelia – Hélène Le Corre Orazio – Mary-Ellen Nesi Tarquinio – Irini Karaianni Porsenna – Vass...