Alexander Zemlinsky spent most of his career in the slipstream of more celebrated composers, and La Petite Sirène â the symphonic fantasy he wrote in 1902â03 as a coded autobiography…
VERDI | Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
The Verdi Requiem had already been heard once in Paris this season â Gianandrea Noseda conducted it in March with the Zurich forces â which made Friday’s performance at the…
DVOĹĂK / MARTINĹŽ / STRAVINSKY / RAVEL | Concertgebouworkest
V pĹĂrodÄ â In Nature’s Realm â is the opening panel of a DvoĹĂĄk triptych of concert overtures the symphonic circuit prefers to leave on the shelf, and on Friday…
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO | Dutch National Opera
Two scars across an otherwise glowing evening. Dutch National Opera‘s new Nozze di Figaro gives us Mozart at the level the work deserves on almost every front â a Netherlands…
HAYDN, ADĂMEK, BRAHMS | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Two end-points of a great musical spectrum, the Gasteig brochure called this programme, with OndĹej AdĂĄmek‘s Where Are You? set between them as the unstable hinge. The copy, for once,…
IL TROVATORE | Bayerische Staatsoper
Caruso is supposed to have said that all Il trovatore requires is âthe four greatest singers in the worldâ â a line that has been gently mocked for a century,…
BRUCKNER 7 | Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
The Adagio of the Seventh â written in part as a tombeau for Wagner, scored for the first time in Bruckner‘s output with four Wagner tubas â is the longest…
SIMON BOCCANEGRA | MĂźnchner Rundfunkorchester
There is a snobbery about concert performances of opera that the genre rarely deserves and almost never bears out. Strip away the costumes, the projections, the trapdoors and the directorial…
BRAHMS / ELGAR | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
There are pianists one admires, and then there are pianists who make admiration feel like an inadequate response. Igor Levit belongs to the second category â and the Brahms First…