This is how an Edinburgh International Festival programme ought to end: with a gripping, momentous work of gargantuan proportions, one you rarely hear, and one which represents a pivotal moment in ...

There is probably no topping the “Tristan Project” any time soon. The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s semi-staged performances of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” in December were a genuine occasion, still ...

At the turn of the 20th century, when the three-century period of tonal music was winding down, composers often wrote huge works requiring exceptionally large numbers of performers. Wagner's operas ...

Earlier this week, Phil Hall reported on the BBC Proms performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder from the orchestra's perspective. Now BBC Symphony Chorus soprano Carole Cameron gives the view from the ...

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LIKE it or hate it, Gurrelieder is a work of engulfing splendour, Schoenberg's answer to Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier (a rather different song of love completed around the same time), Mahler's Das ...

This outstanding collaboration between Manchester’s Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic was made all the more affecting by the recent UK terror attacks ‘We look to ...

The tumultuous climaxes of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder resound like a storming of the heavens. In this performance, recorded live in Cologne last year, an army of choirs stretches into the distance, ...

Live at the BBC Proms from The Royal Albert Hall: The London Symphony Orchestra perform Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder: a work which began as a ...