‘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 ...

However, my encyclopaedia confirmed that Cimarosa was an 18th century composer, born in 1749 and dying in 1801. The notes themselves are always of interest in a Bongiovanni issue, though one better ...

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

One of those ‘lost’ songs, Einsamer Gang (Lonely Walk), has recently been discovered and will be given its UK premiere performances by Rozanna Madylus and Counterpoise at the Wagner 1900 conference in ...

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 ...

The present CD presents the ìconcertî material from the BBC television program, and though absent the sights of a candle-lit Tewkesbury Abbey, the sounds are sumptuous, often exquisite, and leave one ...

This was said to make music sound more ëin the room.í Later, a similar control (sometimes called ëloudnessí), showed up on several amplifier units in my long parade of audio equipment, with the same ...

Director Michael Mayer has successfully filled an inside straight in moving the Metropolitan Opera’s new Rigoletto from 16th century Mantua to early ’60s Las Vegas. Instead of a hunchback court jester ...

ladies whose hearts he flutters; the censors wouldn’t have stood for it.

Pared down to essentials, all attention is on the music. The stage is almost empty, no props, no furnishings. At first you think, why stage this at all, then? Why not just a concert performance? But ...

2005 to an extended run of full houses, so it can at least be said to have already proved its worth. Let loose for 24 hours of shore leave in New York City, three young sailors go in search of some ...

The Three Choirs Festival is the world’s oldest music festival. For over three hundred years, the choirs of the cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester have been coming together to sing.