We’ve been there before with protest music or music aiming to generate change. And music can prompt desired responses – environmental, social or political – including works like Haydn’s ‘Farewell’…
Month: February 2026
A Masterful Recreation of Lully’s Atys at Versailles Bridges the Contemporary and the Baroque
Although Lully’s operas are still not widely seen – certainly not outside of France, despite their fundamental part in the development of 17th century music drama – Atys (1676) fares…
Christophe Rousset completes his Lully opera cycle in refined form with Cadmus et Hermione
Reaching the end of his remarkable cycle of Lully operas (in recordings, with performances also usually presented alongside them) Christophe Rousset comes almost to the beginning of that body of…
The Banality of Evil Is Transcended by Silvery Glitz in Das Wunder Der Heliane for Strasbourg
From even the last phase of his life, on his return to Europe from the USA, Korngold has tended to be ignored as a not very serious composer, a late…