Chat to Bamberg Symphony’s French horn player Christoph Ess
Why did you decide to become a musician? I decided to make music my career relatively late – at the age of 17 I would say. I had always wanted…
Chat to Bamberg Symphony’s French horn player Christoph Ess
Why did you decide to become a musician? I decided to make music my career relatively late – at the age of 17 I would say. I had always wanted…
Sojourn -The Very Best of classical guitarist Xuefei Yang
[asa]B00FQHXY7S[/asa] While it’s a ‘Best Of’ compilation – and as albums these can lack structure and direction by their very nature – the content is quite wisely chosen, including some…
The interview of Britten to America, James Jolly & Sir Mark Elder talked about Britten’s music
[asa]B00FQJHLX4[/asa] As his centenary year draws to a close, we can look back at some wonderful new recordings of Britten’s music: Philip Higham’s disc of the Cello Suites (Delphian), Oliver…
Orchestral Works of Bartok on Chandos- Miraculous Mandarin Suite; Music for Strings; Percussion and Celesta
[asa]B00FNY1GXI[/asa] The earliest work on the CD is the rarely-heard Four Orchestral Pieces of 1912; it seems steeped in the rich heritage of Richard Strauss and early Schoenberg, often almost filmic in atmosphere and orchestrated…
Orchestral Works of Bartok on Chandos- Miraculous Mandarin Suite; Music for Strings; Percussion and Celesta
[asa]B00FNY1GXI[/asa] The earliest work on the CD is the rarely-heard Four Orchestral Pieces of 1912; it seems steeped in the rich heritage of Richard Strauss and early Schoenberg, often almost filmic in atmosphere and orchestrated…
Britten’s The Turn of the Screw on Lso Live, Hybrid SACD – DSD
[asa]B00FA1DGEG[/asa] Only Colin Davis could have persuaded the London Symphony Orchestra to reduce its forces to 17 – Britten writes for 13 players, four doubling instruments – for two visually unatmospheric concert performances of…
Saint Nicola to Britten’s centenary year , Hybrid SACD – DSD
[asa]B00EPTEN4Q[/asa] Saint Nicolas caught the spirit of post-war Britain. Its libretto opens with a call, voiced ‘across the tremendous bridge of sixteen thousand years’, from a man of peace to all…
Rebecca Schmid interviews Soprano Barbara Hannigan
It started out as a birthday present. The soprano Barbara Hannigan, asked to sing at a surprise party for the writer and critic Paul Griffiths, moved toward bigger plans. When…
Gramophone free digital magazine, for Classical Recordings of the Year 2013
With such an illustrious trio of anniversary patron saints – Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner and Benjamin Britten (200, 200 and 100 respectively) – 2013 could hardly have failed to be…