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Wagner: Die Walküre at Dresden Music Festival | Live Review

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

| Opera Now

The second installment of Wagner's Ring Cycle, 'The Wagner Cycles', on period instruments with Kent Nagano and the Dresden Festival Orchestra

'Within the wider international opera community togetherness is lacking and that puts the art form even more at risk' - Harry Hyman | opinion

Opinion

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

| Opera Now

The International Opera Awards founder and entrepreneur argues the need for togetherness when campaigning for funding in the arts

Fatma Said and Joseph Middleton recital at Milton Court Concert Hall | Live Review

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| Opera Now

Some thoughtful and intimate programming from the Egyptian soprano lacked a desperately-needed underlying thread in her recent Milton Court recital

Mishka Rushdie Momen interview: ‘We’ve inherited a lot culturally from the ideas of the Reformation, including a sort of paradoxical individualism’

Features

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

Mishka Rushdie Momen has recorded an album of works by composers working in the shadow of the Reformation, including Bull, Byrd and Gibbons. She tells Jessica Duchen about the enduring appeal of this music and why she plays it on a modern piano

Magdalene Ho: a pianist to watch

Features

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

Jed Distler is impressed by Magdalene Ho, a pianist of enormous promise who won the 2023 Clara Haskil Competition, and suggests some listening

Review - Mozart: ‘Complete Sonatas, Vols 5 & 6’ (Orli Shaham)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Shaham’s concluding Rondeau defines lightness and crispness, replete with humorously timed grace notes’

Review - Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces (Andrey Gugnin)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Andrey Gugnin is a true poet of the keyboard and his commitment shines through in every bar’

Review - Mischa Levitzki: ‘The Complete HMV Recordings’

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘His repertoire centres on the Romantics and in one flamboyant example after another he grabs you by the ears’

Review - ‘Passage secret’ (Ludmila Berlinskaya, Arthur Ancelle)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘The pianists manage to fuse finesse and heartiness in ways that make their performances sound fresh’

Review - Bartók: ‘Piano Music, Volume 9’ (Goran Filipec)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Intended as exercises to nurture piano technique in every aspect, these create a rather disjointed impression heard collectively’

Review - ‘Russian Variations’ (Piers Lane)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘His playing throughout this album is of the highest order, his pianism unfussy, subtle and effortlessly efficient’

Review - Schubert: Four Impromptus, D935; Schumann: Piano Sonata No 1, Op 11 (Annie Fischer)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘In Schumann, Fischer’s fierce integrity was balanced by an inimitable sense of the tender and wistful’

Video of the Day – Rachel Podger plays ‘Auld Bob Morrice’

Classical Music News

Friday, May 24, 2024

| Gramophone

The Gramophone cover star is joined by Brecon Baroque on a brand new album of English music from the 17th and early 18th centuries

Review - Mozart ‘The Sonata Project: Salzburg’ (Yundi)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘His approach is a convincing challenge to a more conventional restraint, a restless Sturm und Drang precursor of Romanticism’

Review - Ravel: ‘The Complete Works For Solo Piano, Vol 1’ (Vincent Larderet)

Review

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘The most satisfying interpretations are of the Valses nobles et sentimentales and the Pavane, which reveal fine attention to detail, pacing and balances’

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Wagner: Die Walküre at Dresden Music Festival | Live Review

'Within the wider international opera community togetherness is lacking and that puts the art form even more at risk' - Harry Hyman | opinion

Fatma Said and Joseph Middleton recital at Milton Court Concert Hall | Live Review

Mishka Rushdie Momen interview: ‘We’ve inherited a lot culturally from the ideas of the Reformation, including a sort of paradoxical individualism’

Magdalene Ho: a pianist to watch

Review - Mozart: ‘Complete Sonatas, Vols 5 & 6’ (Orli Shaham)

Review - Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces (Andrey Gugnin)

Review - Mischa Levitzki: ‘The Complete HMV Recordings’

Review - ‘Passage secret’ (Ludmila Berlinskaya, Arthur Ancelle)

Review - Bartók: ‘Piano Music, Volume 9’ (Goran Filipec)

Review - ‘Russian Variations’ (Piers Lane)

Review - Schubert: Four Impromptus, D935; Schumann: Piano Sonata No 1, Op 11 (Annie Fischer)

Video of the Day – Rachel Podger plays ‘Auld Bob Morrice’

Review - Mozart ‘The Sonata Project: Salzburg’ (Yundi)

Review - Ravel: ‘The Complete Works For Solo Piano, Vol 1’ (Vincent Larderet)

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