Dare you open the door?

Rinat Shaham (mezzo-soprano), Gábor Bretz (bass-baritone); Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/ Karina Canellakis Pentatone PTC 5187 225 60:28 mins A great performance of Bluebeard’s Castle banis

Opera: The Queen of Spades/L’elisir d’amore Garsington ...

Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati

Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari Mirco Palazzi, Marie Lys et al; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset Aparté AP379 159 mins (2CD) A rival to Mozart – and in many ways enjoying a more successful internat

Maurice Ravel has been an enduring part of my world, both as a performer and teacher. As a little girl I played the Mouvement de menuet from his Sonatine at a piano competition, which the renowned pia

Gargantuan in scope and scale, Busoni’s Piano Concerto is ferociously complex – demanding both virtuosic solos and expansive accompaniment from its pianist – and structured in a way that makes Beethov