Joseph Calleja’s With love from Malta: one of the world’s greatest voices from his home to yours
24/06/2020
Malta Grange Park Opera Found Season’s With love from Malta – Joseph Calleja (staying at home): Joseph Calleja (tenor) and Maria Elena Farrugia (piano). Streamed online and reviewed on 23.6.2020. (JPr)
With love from Malta – Joseph Calleja
Live from Covent Garden: Dame Sarah Connolly’s triumphant return to singing with her moving Mahler
21/06/2020
United Kingdom Gluck, Mahler – Live from Covent Garden: Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Vadim Muntagirov (dancer), soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Streamed live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20.6.2020. (JPr)
Dame Sarah Connolly (c) Tristram Kenton
Playing in isolation Diana Adamyan wins Armenia’s 2020 Khachaturian Violin Competition
19/06/2020
Armenia From Yerevan with Love: the 16th Khachaturian Competition – 6-15.6.2020. (CC)
Ibragimova and Bezuidenhout bring spring and summer to Wigmore Hall
17/06/2020
United Kingdom Schubert, Beethoven: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 16.6.2020. (CS)
Alina Ibragimova and Kristian Bezuidenhout (c) Wigmore Hall
Pappano and gifted soloists reanimate the spirit of the Royal Opera House and remember those we have lost
15/06/2020
United Kingdom Various composers, Live from Covent Garden: Louise Alder (soprano), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Toby Spence (tenor), Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales (dancers), Vasko Vassilev (violin), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano), Anita Rani (presenter). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 13.6.2020. (JPr)
Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales (c) Lara Cappelli
NEW! Oxford Lieder Festival – 10-17 October 2020
09/06/2020
OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL 2020
Sholto Kynoch, Artistic Director of Oxford Lieder Festival
UK’S BIGGEST SONG FESTIVAL PAVES THE WAY FOR A NEW AND SUSTAINABLE MODEL IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
The Oxford Lieder Festival will go ahead this October, with a bold programme and trailblazing approach to the challenges currently facing the classical music industry. Over eight days and 35 events, the Festival will be fully live, ticketed, and presented from special venues in and around Oxford, completely online. With a roster of internationally renowned artists and the pick of the new generation, Oxford Lieder continues as a pioneering and innovative champion of the art of song, and addresses the difficult issue of paid online classical music head-on with a new, sustainable model. Read more
Bryn Terfel and Hannah Stone are found ‘at home’ in Grange Park Opera’s stellar recital
06/06/2020
United Kingdom Grange Park Opera’s Found Season – The Son of a Farmer (Staying at Home): Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) and Hannah Stone (harp). Reviewed on 6.6.2020. (JPr)
The Song of a Farmer – Sir Bryn Terfel
Excellent, eclectic, and engaging Monday Concert Live Stream – the Ninth – from Bavarian State Opera
06/06/2020
Germany Ninth Monday Concert: Soloists of the Bavarian State Ballet and Bavarian State Orchestra, Günther Groissböck (bass), Gerold Huber (piano), Live stream from the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, 1.6.2020. (MMB)
Günther Groissböck (bass)
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This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best.In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater.This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation.The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances.A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers.'We're dealing with constantly changing regulations,' said conductor Sakari Oramo
This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best.
In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater.
This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation.
The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances.
A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers.
'We're dealing with constantly changing regulations,' said conductor Sakari Oramo
