As promised at and by the fundraiser concert of Russian art songs and arias in January, Bel Cantanti’s opera gala this year was a celebration of Russian opera, with longer…
Month: March 2026
The Britten/Piper outlier: Owen Wingrave at Guildhall School of Music & Drama
The most famous result of collaboration between Benjamin Britten and Myfanwy Piper is The Turn of the Screw (1954), arguably Britten’s most successful opera and surely the one in which…
George Jeffreys & the Birth of the English Baroque
It was completely apt that the first music heard in Solomon’s Knot’s evening dedicated to composer George Jeffreys was some Byrd: the five-part Bow thine eare, O Lord (a contrafactum…