Work: Cinq Mélodies de Venise: en sourdine, Op.58 no.2

If you sing like an angel, might as well look like one. Philippe Jaroussky, considered one of the world’s finest countertenors, came onto the stage in Hohenems, Austria last Saturday evening with the demeanor of a celestial being...

Drawing names such as Sarah Connolly and Dame Felicity Lott to the dreaming spires, the Oxford Lieder Festival has defined itself as a leading musical exponent on an international level. It was fitting, then, that Alice Coote and Julius Drake should open the final weekend of the eleventh festival.

À Venise, le Centre de musique romantique française organise un festival consacré aux musiciens dans la Grande Guerre. Le deuxième concert proposait des mélodies interprétées par Judith Fa et Damien Lehman.