compilation is at once a celebration of Mahler’s enduring music in sound ...

Loosely linked by the Drama Queens theme — all the arias were sung by female characters under some sort of pressure, the concert was really a way of dusting off music which has been neglected, partly ...

Music composed by Louise Bertin. Libretto by Victor Hugo from his novel ...

From the opening scene, Louis XIV would have felt quite at home in Versailles or the AcadÈmie Royal de Musique, 2 viewing a performance of Lully’s TragÈdies Lyriques. 3 It was, then, the custom to ...

The conducting of youthful Michele Mariotti finds all the pathos, beauty and drama of Simon Boccanegra’s score. Guido Fiorate provides both the traditional, beautifully detailed costumes and a ...

In Wordsworth’s great ode Intimations of Immortality there is an imaginative reference to “the clouds that gather round the ...

‘Canticle’ is the term Britten used to denote an extended setting of a text of spiritual substance. The five Canticles span his career: the first dates from 1947, two years after the celebrated ...

Music, led to mutual international renown. And, it was the story of their repute and rivalry which actress Lindsay Duncan recounted with telling dry wit at St John’s Smith Square, through excerpts ...

Moreover, the conductor is a good ëroutinierí and thatís all that can be said. Nowadays one doesnít accept anymore the truncated versions of yore with almost half an hour of music missing. Still as a ...

There is no greater name in lieder composition than that of Franz Schubert, and he desperately wanted to make a name for himself as a composer of opera as well. However, his operatic efforts met only ...

appears at the end of performances and is deservedly applauded, for she symbolizes the triumph of good over evil, values we all want to believe in. This gives The Passenger such potent extra-musical ...

or as completely beyond the bounds of civil etiquette.