Articles de David Karlin

The LSO celebrate the breadth and vividness of orchestral colour, while Kirill Gerstein’s Ravel is a shade too reverential.

Gorgeous French music, polished choral singing and excellent soloists are marred by an overwhelmingly dark timbre and unsympathetic video.

Handel's last oratorio is stylishly set in the composer’s era, with an all-star cast of Handelian singers who give their all.

Maarten Walraven and Jeroen van Egmond at Symphony.live want to build a streaming platform for the world’s orchestras, working together on video for the benefit of all. Vision of the future – or pipe dream?

The Artistic Director of LuganoMusica tells us the story of his 8-year-old hall, describes its exceptional acoustics and the effect it has had on the cultural life of the city.

Grosvenor brings out the commonalities and contrasts of two great B minor sonatas, demonstrating his unique pianistic qualities. 

It's been a long wait since Cardiff Singer 2015, but the Mongolian baritone gives an outstanding vocal portrayal of Verdi’s doomed jester at the Royal Opera House.

Audiences, energy prices, politics, sustainability... With nearly 400 opera executives assembled in Copenhagen, the Opera Europa autumn conference was the ideal venue to take the temperature of the opera industry.

Anthony Almeida and Rosanna Vize's deconstructed ghostly country house provides plenty of tension; fine vocal qualities are marred by poor intelligibility.

When Danish company Arts Consolidated bought Operabase in 2018, they were buying into a quarter century of opera history. Their CEO tells us how they serve professionals and audiences alike.

Christof Loy's 2019 production proves even more compelling second time round, with excellent acting and a properly heroic tenor performance from Brian Jagde.

The first instalment of Covent Garden's new Ring is excellent all round from orchestra and voices, with Barrie Kosky providing plenty of ideas to tease us as to how the cycle will continue. 

The Director of the Sofia Philharmonic talks about concert programming, conducting, serving a term as Bulgarian Culture Minister, and an impossible wish to clone himself.

La France est le pays incontournable des festivals de musique, avec des douzaines – voire des centaines – d'événements parmi lesquels choisir. En juillet, David et Alison, les fondateurs de Bachtrack, ont visité quatre festivals très différents.

Ravel arranged for the French a cappella choir gives mixed results, from outstanding to imperfect. 

At the Promenades musicales du Pays d'Auge in Normandy, the Toulouse-born pianist impresses with a rare ability to communicate emotion.

Yip Wing-sie and the HK Sinfonietta show admirable qualities in their Beethoven cycle. François-Frédéric Guy plays a splendid Third Piano Concerto but Anne Queffélec is disconnected from the orchestra in the Fourth.

In a magical outdoor environment, one of the elder statesmen of French piano traces the progression of Beethoven's style through his sonatas.

The 43rd edition of the International Piano Festival opens with a Beethoven programme of elegance and grace from Bertrand Chamayou and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO give an orchestral performance to remember, with a fine singing cast, but Simon McBurney's staging dials the bleakness to maximum too early.