Robert Hugill

Puccini's first opera, if it is known at all, is known best as the two-act “Le Villi.” But, in ...

German soprano Simone Kermes is a distinctive singer with an unmistakable approach to Baroque music. In her “Mio Caro ...

Leonardo Vinci—not to be confused with the iconic painter and inventor—is one of the Italian composers from the ...

I first came across Richard Allain's music at one of Alistair Dixon's “New Lamps for Old” concerts with his ensemble ...

This year's London Handel Festival focused on the theme "Handel's Divas"; yet the word "diva," in fact, was not used ...

Friday, March 8, 2019, was the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz, and commemorations included a ...

Featuring conductor Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Orchestra, a new Onyx Classics album showcases two of Handel’s ...

Damian Iorio will be conducting the Welsh National Opera's revival of Dominic Cooke's production of Mozart's “The Magic Flute” during February and May ...

LONDON—With her latest recording, violinist Jennifer Pike has been rediscovering her Polish roots. The Chandos disc "The Polish Violin,” with pianist ...

Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka has recently released a new recital disc of bel canto arias by Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gaspare ...

Despite a significant body of work, perhaps over 3,400 compositions, the works of composer Antonio Caldara remain very ...

This beautifully imaginative album “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges: Romantic songs and piano transcriptions,” on Challenge Records, alternates between a song ...

LONDON—Ballet is a curious art form. Where else would we accept as standard a work by a number ...

I caught the Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka as Marguerite in Gounod's “Faust” in Riga in 2017,  and she was Vitellia in the ...

  The composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) is so well-known as a cornerstone of Anglican and Episcopal ...

The delightful new release "Vivaldi: Concerti da Camera" from the French label Calliope presents us with a disc of ...

This album is the fifth in Deutsche Grammophon's project to record the major Mozart operas with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chamber Orchestra ...

This latest disc from The Marian Consort and director Rory McCleery (on Delphian), “In Sorrow's Footsteps,” compares and contrasts old and modern ...

Benjamin Zander's new recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Benjamin Zander Conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 'Choral'" available on ...

The Austrian-German symphonic canon goes something like this: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler. ...

Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727) is not a household name—yet—though we are already discovering what a big influence he had ...

The Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski is 50 this year, and, in celebration, the Tenebrae choir and its director Nigel Short released ...

An illuminating glimpse at the music Mozart heard in London during his visit in 1764–65, the two-disc set ...

STOKENCHURCH, England—A strong cast and a radiant account of the title role show that music and art do ...

It sometimes seems as if London might have a finite pool of professional singers, with familiar faces cropping ...

The new release “Winter Journey” from Signum Classics follows from the performances at the Ryedale Festival and Wigmore Hall of Jeremy Sams's translation ...