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Praulins: The Nightingale (CD Review - Sächsische Zeitung, 2011)
Grenzlos nah am Geschehen Für die dänische Flötistin Michala Petri scheint nichts unm¨glich. Jetz singt sie wie eine Nachtingall, und die klangtechnik brilliert dazu. Wenn Michala Petri auftritt, dann lässt sie meist in irgendeiner Weise aufhoren. Da ist keine spur von Gewöhnung und Poutine – und dies, obwohl die Dänin ein Instrument spielt, bei dem mancher gähnend abwinkt: Blockflöte. Die scheinb
Ešenvalds: Passion and Resurrection & Other Choral Works (CD Review - blog.codae
In den drei Republiken des Baltikum gab es immer schon eine ausgeprägt hochklassige und vielfältige Musikszene, die nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion wieder richtig aufblühte. Nun, rund 20 Jahre danach, ist sie zu einem bedeutenden Faktor in der europäischen Szene der zeitgenössischen Musik (sowohl im Jazz, als auch in der zeitgenössischen klassischen Musik) geworden. Zahlreiche Komponisten u
Handel: Messiah (CD Review - Music Web International, 2010)
In a sense this release brings my experience to date of Messiah on CD full circle. The very first Messiah that I acquired was a live recording, also from St. John’s Smith Square and captured by Hyperion. That was the 1985 version by The Sixteen and Harry Christophers (now on Hyperion’s Dyad label, which I still regard highly. Since then several other CD versions of Handel’s great masterpiece have
California Tour: Trinity College Choir (Concert Review - San Francisco Classical
Trinity Goes to Tinseltown We Americans often find the concept of an established church difficult to grasp. As our fellow citizens debate school prayer, crosses in public parks, and vouchers for religious schools, official state support of the church remains de rigueur is other lands and is an integral part of state education. This is particularly apparent at the famous British universities Oxford
Aldeburgh Festival: Polyphony (Concert Review - The Independent, 2007)
Members of the audience who arrived with cushions, to counter the unforgiving Maltings seats, must have felt quietly satisfied with themselves upon discovering that this performance of St John Passion was to be given without an interval. In the event, they needn't have bothered: such was the power and drama of the interpretation, any thoughts of one's own bodily sufferings were completely banished
Handel: Messiah (Concert Review - Early Music Review, 2006)
The conclusion of the St John’s, Smith Square Festival was the annual sell-out Messiah given by the outstanding choir, Polyphony, with the Academy of Ancient Music – an absolute must on the London music scene, alongside their Easter Bach Passions. However many times I hear these annual Polyphony Messiahs, they always sound fresh and invigorating, and there is always something new in Stephen Layton