By CHENDY BLOG Thursday, April 10, 2014 Books CDs Concertgebouw London Strauss Learning from Books One of the major topics of the London Book Fair this year, as indeed in many previous years, concerns the digitisation of books and how tha...
By CHENDY BLOG Friday, April 4, 2014 CDs Strauss A Slew of Strauss Richard Strauss's 150th birthday has spurred a great slew of recordings, some new, some re-released. The trend reaches a particularly pr...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, March 15, 2014 Bychkov Opera Royal Opera House Strauss Beyond the Fairytale I have always loved Die Frau ohne Schatten , since the moment I first heard the Act II finale, 'Barak, ich hab' es nicht getan!'...
By CHENDY BLOG Sunday, March 2, 2014 Independent on Sunday Nietzsche Photography Royal Opera House Steichen Strauss Bow Tie and Hydrangeas Spotting Edward Steichen's 1906 portrait of Richard Strauss in my presentation for the Royal Opera House's Insight Evening about Di...
By CHENDY BLOG Monday, February 24, 2014 Hofmannsthal Strauss My dear Doctor Strauss Writing a lot about Strauss means having a copy of The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal permanently by my s...
By CHENDY BLOG Thursday, February 20, 2014 Amsterdam Garmisch Germany Royal Opera House Salzburg Strauss Strauss mit Strauss It's Strauss all the time at Entartete Musik towers just now. I'm writing about Die Frau ohne Schatten for one of the broadsheets,...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, February 8, 2014 CBSO Nelsons Strauss A Strauss Wonder Some pieces are a slow burn. The first time I heard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie it evaded me. It was the famous Karajan recording, the...
By CHENDY BLOG Sunday, January 26, 2014 Brahms Bruckner Hyperion Mahler Strauss Vienna Wellesz Zemlinsky Helping Complete the Symphonic Picture I'm guilty of oversights. Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler... it's a symphony trajectory I repeat ad absurdum . Of course I include the fin...