Bamberger Symphoniker/Stadlmair (Tudor, nine CDs) / The Swiss-born Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882) was hugely prolific and often claimed as an influence on composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Richard Strauss ...
Perahia/Israel PO/Mehta (Sony Classical, five CDs) / A British music magazine recently asked 100 leading pianists to nominate the three pianists they regarded as the greatest of the 20th century. The final top 20, which was ...
Berberian/NHK SO/Schüchter/Takahashi (Wergo, three CDs) / Like the previous releases in this series from LPs originally released in the 1960s and 70s on composer Earle Brown's own label, there is something hit and miss ...
Holliger/Academy of St Martin in the Fields/I Musici (Newton Classics, three CDs) / The Dutch-based Newton Classics is the latest arrival in the increasingly crowded reissue market. The label intends, eventually, to release ...
Prey/Varady/Cotrubas/ Domingo/Kollo/Price/Schreier/Janowitz/ Vienna PO/Bavarian State Opera/ Dresden Staatskapelle/Kleiber (Deutsche Grammophon, 12 CDs) / Though he conducted less and less frequently in the decade before he ...
Jazz, Afro-Cuban, even brass bands – there's no end to the variety of adaptations you can hear of Bach's music. Suzy Klein on why a bit of Johann Sebastian is a remixer's dream / One of the more unexpected side effects ...
Royal Albert Hall, London / Six works, five of them never heard at the Proms before, made up Oliver Knussen's three-part programme with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Between Germanic outer layers – Stockhausen's Jubilee ...
BBC Proms 2010 | Five Days That Changed Britain | The Man With 121 Children | Stealing Shakespeare | European Darts Championships | The Secret Tourist / BBC Proms 2010 7.30pm, BBC4Paul Lewis continues his epic contribution to ...
Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh / Any lingering notion that Longborough's full-scale Wagner Ring represented folly has been blown away with this fine production of Die Walküre, the second opera in the cycle: ...
Holland Park, London / Never lacking in ambition, Opera Holland Park has set itself arguably its biggest challenge yet with its first production of Verdi's vast and sprawling tragedy. The Force of Destiny was written in the ...
