The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition begins next week, and its problems cannot all be attributed to the death of its namesake earlier this year.
As Wagner’s 200th birthday approaches, one of his interpreters, the German conductor Christian Thielemann, is in the process of scaling back the excess in his own life.
Susanne Heinrich (bass viol) (Dagamba)It's so difficult playing Bach's solo music on a bass viol, writes Susanne Heinrich merrily, that "it is unlikely to start a trend". Obsessed with the six violin sonatas and partitas ...
Coliseum, London; Barbican, LondonAt the end of ENO's new staging of Wozzeck, the last thing you feel like doing is clapping. Carrie Cracknell's powerful production asks for silence; time to absorb the ...
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Karajan (ICA Classics) (2 CDs)Richard Osborne's excellent liner notes tell us that Neville Cardus wrote in the Guardian that a "raving" audience filled the Royal Festival Hall on ...
Cappella Mediterranea, Chamber Choir of Namur, Clematis/Alarcón (Ricercar)This exuberant collection brings together secular and sacred Spanish music that might have been exported to the new world in the 17th ...
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The Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery Series continued Friday night with a recital by Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach. While Chopin’s 24 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...