Welcome to the 119th work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition Andante favori, WoO 57 (1803-4) Having intended this piece as a middle movement for the Waldstein sonata,

From the Hebrew prayer Unetane tokef:  

The distinguished Scottish soprano Margaret Marshall has got around to putting up a website of her best recordings, www.margaretmarshallsongbird.com. She opens with the song that

No less than Barbara… He told me they were good friends and she appeared on his show.      

Recording from the Auditorium Radio El Mundo, Buenos Aires, 1949. She is so much faster than the sluggish orchestra.  

Große Fuge for String Quartet in B flat major op. 133 Beethoven made a rare admission of error when he extracted the 15-minute finale from

Let it be a better year.  

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: So much nonsense is being spouted these days about ‘decolonising’ western music that we’ve forgotten it’s not western

With Netrebko under hospital care Russia, we now hear that the Hungarian soprano Ildiko Komlosi tested positive for Covid-19 test on Monday and was rushed

The Bayreuth boss was due to stage Lohenrin in November. She has been told they’ll make do with an old productuion, shortened for Covid purposes.