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One could imagine a Piranesi of the page constructing sonnets like carceri to shore against their ruins – and ours...
Nolan brings to them the same concentration one brings to a page of Celan: nothing is throwaway, everything is load-bearing...
On rue de Verneuil in Paris’s elegant 7th arrondissement, two buildings stand roughly opposite each other. At number 5 bis is the home in which Serge Gainsbourg lived out...
This immensely enjoyable chamber music recital afforded a rare opportunity to experience the evolution of the piano trio across three distinct musical epochs...
This is a Mass in B minor where chamber-like sonorities go together with dramatic gestures as elegant as they are powerful, and where the instrumental and vocal soloists...
John Potter (tenor), Christopher O’Gorman (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Hyperion CDA67998. Released December 2013 This fascinating and beautiful release is the...
Here as throughout, soprano Frances Cooper proves the most able and beguiling of interpreters, her diction crystal-clear, her voice sweet and steady, her expression...