The opening section of Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen’s 2012 String Quartet No. 4 is subtitled “light and airy”, and, aptly, the four strings produce extraordinary, airy sonorities: a sequence of ...
If you don’t know Debussy’s 1913 tennis-inspired ballet Jeux, then start here. Performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with choreography by Nijinsky in May 1913, it flopped, and had the bad luck to be ...
Featuring new albums from Véronique Gens, Seong-Jin Cho, Voces8, René Jacobs, Aimi Kobayashi, Iestyn Davies, Fretwork and Calum Huggan Véronique Gens' professional career began with the music of Lully ...
The fatal attraction between a sorceress and a Christian Crusader in Lully's opera Armide is the very definition of angst. For a work written in 1686, Armide was also way ahead of its time since it ...
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