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A Sicilian Traveller (Alessio Pianelli)
Beethoven: Scottish Songs, Op. 108
Rapa Nui Odyssey
Reflections: Mompou • Ravel
Travels with Goliath: In the footsteps of Josef Kämpfer
Momento Immobile: Arias by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Stenhammar: Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 19; Two Sentimental Romances
Bartók • R Schumann
Schumann: Humoreske; Davidsbündlertänze; Geistervariationen
The Dreams & Fables I Fashion
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Christopher König and Solistes Européens Luxembourg perform Beethoven and Méhul
Beethoven didn’t write music in a vacuum. Much is made of how influential he has been to almost every composer who followed, but it has been harder to find explorations of the music and composers he was shaped by himself.
Histoires d'un Ange
Fenella Humphreys soars in The Four Seasons Recomposed
The Alehouse Sessions: Barokksolistene's improvisations on music from the English 17th-century tavern
There’s no danger that Norway’s Barokksolistene will be abandoning the day job any time soon. But for the past decade the enterprising period instrument ensemble, directed by Bjarte Eike, has been moonlighting with ‘alehouse sessions’ raising a glass or three to the boozy world of music-making to be found in the taverns where Henry Purcell and his contemporaries liked to unwind. It’s not just the beer that’s subject to a good mash-up!
Sonya Bach brings a 'clean, jewel-like tone' to JS Bach's Keyboard Concertos Nos 1-5 & 7
Bach’s keyboard concertos are, in fact, his own recyclings for harpsichord and strings of sundry earlier works – fine examples of how he refashioned his music according to his resources and circumstances. Had he lived a generation later, he would might have played them on the piano, as his namesake Sonya Bach does here.