Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
Although it’s unlikely that many listeners were clamoring for a whole disc of songs by Arnold Bax, anyone who loves English song repertoire and appreciates
The Golden Legend, one of a number of dramatic cantatas Arthur Sullivan composed apart from the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, was enormously popular during
Thanks to Britten’s own recordings of the Canticles with tenor Peter Pears (Decca), we not only have versions of these songs as near to definitive
You can’t win them all, and neither, apparently, can Chandos’ Opera in English series. In general I am a fan: Though not particularly fond of
Wozzeck in the vernacular is a good idea. The dementiae that go on within the minds of and between the characters are subtle and remarkable;
