Classical & Opera
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - review
Coote/Fritz/Netherlands PO/Albrecht (PentaTone) Alice Coote 's many admirers will be grateful to have her performance in Mahler 's great song-symphony documented in a carefully made studio recording, for she has emerged over the past few years as one
Album: Schubert, Winterreise - Alice Coote/Julius Drake (Wigmore Hall Live)
Female artists have sung Winterreise before, but not with the intensity of mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.Album: Schubert, Winterreise - Alice Coote/Julius Drake (Wigmore Hall Live)
Female artists have sung Winterreise before, but not with the intensity of mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.
Magdalena Ko
Barbican, London For her Barbican recital, the Czech mezzo Magdalena Ko
Anna Caterina Antonacci - review
Wigmore Hall, London Perhaps because of its unusual scoring for mezzo-soprano and string quartet, Ottorino Respighi 's setting of Shelley 's poem The Sunset , translated into Italian as Il Tramonto, doesn't get many outings. With the Heath Quartet i
The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear
The Southbank Centre's head of classical music introduces the sixth instalment of their Rest is Noise Festival, a time when 'the world turned on its dark side' "The world turns on its dark side", proclaims the opening music of A Child of Our Time, the OrThe Rest is Noise Festival: Art of fear - reviews from the archive
How the Guardian and Observer reported on music created during one of the darkest periods of the 20th century The period from the mid-1930s onwards saw the beginning of "the most warped and tragic phase in the twentieth-century music: the total politic
Glyndebourne 2013: Billy Budd trailer - video
Billy Budd will be available to watch, as live, here on the Guardian from Friday 23 August to Saturday 31 August. This production was recorded live at the 2010 festival.
Steve Martland: an appreciation
The Liverpudlian composer's music is full of top tunes, infectious rhythmic power, and bold, poster-paint colours, writes Tom Service. Steve Martland, whose death from a heart attack at 53 has just been announced, was an inimitably brilliant, charmingl