Hints and tips:
...They try a movement of a Mahler symphony, then some Philip Glass, and are not boxed into any single kind of music....
...Alongside Tippett’s King Priam, English Touring Opera has chosen another rarity for its spring season – Britten’s Paul Bunyan....
...With major new works by Thomas Adès and Philip Glass already under its belt, this year’s Proms season has been giving more than lip service to contemporary music....
...When the castrati arrived, the male falsetto voice was banished into the churches, where it remained for two centuries until Michael Tippett chanced to hear Alfred Deller singing in Canterbury cathedral...
...Difficult though it is to believe, Philip Langridge is about to turn 70....
...Cynthia Sieden repeats her pixie-like Ariel, and Philip Langridge’s King of Naples makes much out of little....
...(Walton’s conventional operas were generally flops, as against Michael Tippett’s eccentrically inspired successes.)...
...But the men were in splendid vocal health: Philip O’Brien and Giles Davies stood out in both works....
...And Richard Hickox’s latest Tippett anthology, comprising The Rose Lake and Ritual Dances (Chandos), is a worthy memento of the composer’s centenary. Two baroque recordings stand out....
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