Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
The period production in New York offers three house debuts
...He decided to persevere: “I thought the shop was providing a benefit to the music community,” he explains....
...At the time of his death Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto was a relative rarity, whether in concerts or recordings....
...In this recording Diana Damrau visits the music of three cities, Vienna, Berlin and Paris....
...Louise Bertin (1805-77) is largely forgotten today and it is to the credit of Bru Zane, the pioneering company dedicated to French rarities, that it has plunged in with the first recording of her Italian-language...
...The rest of the concert looked to American music of the 1920s and ’30s....
...“Most contemporary productions have a merch store in the theatre,” says Moe, but “the nature of collectables is that rarity equals value”. Programmes and posters are the obvious place to start....
...Then he adds a bonus in the form of eight tracks offering further alternative arias for each of the solo singers, including relative rarities....
...Puccini: Turandot Antonio Pappano Opera recordings made in a studio are a rarity these days....
...Saint-Saëns’ skill at characterisation is nevertheless sure and incorporated in music that is consistently rewarding....
...Of course not, but the point of Offenbach’s frothiest operettas is to take the laughs where they come and focus on the trippingly light comic step of his music....
...As well as commodifying rarities, online markets are burying true obscurities. There are records out there unknown even to the internet. To Discogs, that means zero value....
...Appended as a bonus track is the rarity “Freedom Train”, an exuberant dance....
...A rarity in this era of bloated runtimes and single-proposition films.”...
...This is both a rarity and a musical treat, so why do the three and a quarter hours take so very long to pass?...
...And it is his singular approach to bass clarinet that makes “When Lights are Low”, a Coltrane rarity, so distinctive....
...One of his last tone poems, it was welcome here as the work is a rarity in the concert hall. Finally, Pappano and the LSO let rip with Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben....
...Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio, and our theme song is by Metaphor Music....
...Die tote Stadt was staged by the Royal Opera just once in 2009 and remains a rarity....
...London’s two main operatic events of the 2023 Coronation weekend were considerably less splendid and historic — and were chalk and cheese in idiom — but each joined politics and music effectively....
...Mostly teenagers, they are rarities in their homeland where music is dominated by men. Their songs were a mix of charming melodiousness and defiant messaging....
...Since then, the economics of the record industry mean that a starrily-cast recording of a grand opera like Turandot, made in the optimum conditions of a recording studio, has become a rarity....
...Leo LewisYeah, certainly still a rarity....
...He hopes the original slides will fetch anywhere from $50 to $10,000, depending on subject and rarity. In a recent charity auction, two slides fetched $2,000 apiece....
...After being beat out by Pick for the top job, wealth management head Andy Saperstein and asset management boss Dan Simkowitz have both agreed to stay on in expanded roles at the bank — a rarity compared...
International Edition