May 21, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, May 21, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Haydn’s B-flat Symphony 102 occupied the first half. With the Berlin strings appropriately laid out, led (I’m pretty sure) by Rainer Honeck from the Vienna Philharmonic – antiphonal...
May 21, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Thursday, May 19, 2022 Westminster Abbey, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Monteverdi’s Vespers have become indelibly associated with Venice (the theme of this year’s London Festival of Baroque Music) on account of the composer’s long association with the...
May 21, 2022 | News, Videos
Holliger conducts his Atembogen; WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne; January 20, 2022 Holliger plays and directs Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; December 1993 Christian Gerhaher and Heinz Holliger record Othmar Schoeck’s Elegie...
May 21, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
May 4, 1986, Royal Festival Hall – a hot ticket occasion, no doubt, but off of my radar of remembrance, so whether the complete evening is here, I know not, although at seventy-seven minutes there is little room on the disc for much else, for the first items are five...