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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

passionate nationalist with all the excesses of the time and place: anti-Germanism became, for him as for many, a racial “Celticism,” and his Francophilia included royalism, anti-Dreyfusism and ...

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 ...

In 1934, John Christie launched an institution of English musical life with Fritz Busch and Carl Ebert: The Glyndebourne Festival. Since 1951, the Festival has staged four productions of Mozart’s ...