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

The maestro himself took his distance from this work, even though the opera had clocked more performances during his lifetime than all his other operaís (sorry Gesamtkunstwerken). But this was not at ...

Such thoughts on the part of a humble reviewer, and very possibly most members of an audience too, were prompted by BBC ...

Like a hallucinogenic sugar cube, this Medici Arts DVD of Hans Werner Henze’s *Der junge Lord*, with libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, will take viewers on a wild ride and really put it to the system.

Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’ Symphony, his thirteenth, is amongst his greatest works – and yet in a sense it disappeared completely after its troubled premiere on December 18 th, 1962. The composer ...

‘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 ...

The highlight of BWV 56 is, for me, the aria ‘Endlich, endlich wird ...

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 ...

The opera was given its premiere in Dresden on 29 May 1901, and a measure of its success resides in the fact that it was given its New York premiere just a year later in 1902. Fully in line with the ...

or as completely beyond the bounds of civil etiquette.

the creation of opera, an Italian invention. Primo Riccitelli, whose name is ...

On his death, Seiler bequeathed Bruckner his Bˆsendorfer grand piano, which ...