Performer: Robert Holl

An old instrument, a veteran star singer, and a late rose all bloom at Oxford's annual songfest.

When audiences first heard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, they were stunned by the sustained, passionate eroticism of the score, with the musicians amongst them amazed by the variety of novel compositional devices.

Riccardo Chailly und das Concertgebouw Orchester feiern Schönbergs 150. Geburtstag mit einer imposanten Aufführung der Gurre-Lieder.