Handel in Rome: Nardus Williams and the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall

London audiences seem to have been frequently invited to travel back to Handel’s Rome of late.  After In the Realms of Sorrow at Stone Nest during the London Handel Festival…

Singing of surpassing beauty from The Dunedin Consort: Ich habe genug

Here’s a disc of outstanding solo performances from the Dunedin Consort of three of J.S. Bach’s finest cantatas.  John Butt’s musicians have already garnered considerable critical acclaim, and two of…

Dido’s Ghost: music and myth, remembered and relived

If you’re a fan of postmodern magic realistic fiction – think Salman Rushdie, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez et al – then you’ll love Errollyn Wallen new opera Dido’s Ghost,…