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Plus: baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson at the Royal Festival Hall
Lydia Steier’s allegorical production seemed to contain a message for audience member Theresa May
The orchestra’s Ring cycle, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, looks set to be a journey worth following
Matthias Goerne sings two of the composer’s works with a recitalist’s admirable care for words
William Kentridge brings the first world war back into Berg’s opera with grim sketches, animations and hypnotic power
The cast is top-notch — but does the HK Philharmonic have the stamina for Wagner?
Live recording is taken from concert performances, but conductor Jaap van Zweden rouses much of the drama
This is music with its eyes on some distant horizon, with an almost fraught urgency to much of the playing
Matthias Goerne’s voice provided a thrilling counterpoint to William Kentridge’s visuals
Matthias Goerne’s darkly brooding Wotan is the trump card of this first instalment of Naxos’s new cycle
An evening of sober musical excellence launched architect Jean Nouvel’s new structure
Matthias Goerne presides over a perverse multimedia interpretation of Schubert’s masterpiece
Beautifully performed Britten easily eclipsed a jarring mash-up of Dufay and Heider
Vienna’s finest produced a first-class concert performance of Berg’s masterpiece
Alternating songs by Mahler and Shostakovich, this thoughtful recital took death as its theme
Goerne’s latest Schubert recital, mostly comprised of little-known songs, is one of the baritone’s most accomplished
Conductor Paavo Järvi with his French orchestra
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