Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played to…
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LPO/Jurowski review – Mahler’s 10th is full of colour, and the composer’s pain, in Barshai’s completion ⊕
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Rudolf Barshai’s audacious completion of Marhler’s final unfinished symphony slathers on the colour, and its diverse timbral details came over loud and clear thanks to the …
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Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy ⊕
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Coliseum, London
English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives th…
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