Huw Montague Rendall’s new release Contemplation has been spinning in both my car and home players repeatedly for months now.
Christian Gerhaher delivers a Kindertotenlieder of such conciliatory tact that it erases all others.
Brigitte Fassbaender‘s sound is piquant and, I’d hazard to guess, instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with her work.
Elina Garanca was radiantly present at Carnegie Hall Friday night performing a ravishingly somber Rückert-Lieder with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the MET Orchestra.
Although Gustav Mahler never wrote an opera, his colossal Eighth Symphony “The Symphony of a Thousand” may give us some glimpses of what a Mahler opera might have sounded like
Another five-Thursday month invites “Trove Thursday” to offer a combo of shorter works.
LoftOpera’s accurately but unpromisingly named Pergolesi & Vivaldi stumbled rather than soared.
A poster outside Carnegie Hall proclaimed “Mahler Well Met” and to some degree it proved to be true.
In just two years, Brooklyn’s LoftOpera has rapidly established itself as a bracing, essential addition to New York City’s musical life.
Three nights, three concert halls, and three incredibly diverse programmes.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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