Books and CD/DVD

1 October 2021

Edward Elgar (1857–1934) is one of those British composers that France thinks it can happily do without. The Dream of Gerontius is performed in…

A sailor from the far North

30 December 2020

Each new listening confirms that Peter Grimes is undeniably Benjamin Britten's masterpiece, and on can understand why the premiere of this opera in 1945…

Franz and Transfiguration

29 December 2020

Four Germanic composers, for four works composed in the first two decades of the 20th century : this is the program of the Verklärte Nacht…

From Munich with love

2 December 2020

Not all singers are lucky enough to have Jonas Kaufmann who only has to lift a finger to have his wishes granted. For not…

A theatre of sounds

1 December 2020

Collectors will no doubt reproach this box set for its inconvenient horizontal format ; others, the dominant matt grey or the very useless works of…

Lorenzo behind Da Ponte

26 November 2020

Rarely have we heard such a dramaturgically ambitious work as Tarik O'Regan's Phoenix, premiered in 2019 at the Houston Grand Opera on a libretto…

Deat Poets Society

23 November 2020

German composers had Goethe, Eichendorff and many others, the French had Baudelaire, Verlaine and more recent ones to set to music. Although long considered…

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