In the October issue of Gramophone, we celebrate the 90th birthday of composer Steve Reich by speaking to musicians and ...
James Jolly pays a visit to Longborough Festival Opera as it approaches its 30th birthday to meet its Artistic Director Polly ...
In an interesting note for Somm’s latest Thomas Beecham album, which includes a 1959 live BBC relay of Tchaikovsky’s Third ...
Acclaimed for its perfection and popular across Europe in the 18th century, Pergolesi’s Stabat mater invites a range of ...
Tim Ashley introduces Strauss’s comic opera in two acts, set to his own libretto and premiered in 1924, and recommends his ...
Tim Keeler, Music Director of US vocal ensemble Chanticleer, chats with Andrew Farach-Colton about finding the ideal medieval ...
Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in A Major by Matthieu Idmtal. This new recording by the Belgian pianist aims to shine new light on the piano sonatas of Joseph Haydn.
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis 'Collegium Magdalenae Oxonienses' Jeremy Filsell, Organ Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Columba Mea, Movements: Set me as a seal Jeremy Filsell, Organ Saint Thomas Choir ...
Two superb new recordings of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine arrive within a fortnight of each other – an embarrassment of riches! Philosophically as well as artistically, since between them ...
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier, Conductor Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier, Conductor This may be the first album to contain both ...
Johann Sebastian Bach, in his capacity as honorary Kapellmeister, was asked to provide music for the funeral of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen in 1729. Already in Leipzig by then, Bach worked with ...