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Fabio Luisi on Wagner's Ring Cycle
23rd Jun 2026by James Longstaffe
The Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra speaks about his association with the music of Wagner, and his decision to undertake performances and a recording of the composer's monumental cycle of four operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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The Isidore Quartet on 'Adorations'
17th Jun 2026by David Smith
The quartet's members discuss the works that comprise their debut album, and the influence of earlier generations of quartets on their own musicmaking.
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Wagner's Ring Cycle from Fabio Luisi in Dallas
29th May 2026by Katherine Cooper
Recorded live at concert performances in 2024, this new Ring scores highly for the Italian conductor's lyrical, nuanced approach to the score and boasts a fine new Wagnerian hero in Swedish tenor Daniel Johansson.
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Mark Delavan (Wotan/Wanderer), Lise Lindstrom (Brünnhilde), Daniel Johansson (Siegfried), Sara Jakubiak (Sieglinde), Christopher Ventris (Siegmund), Stephen Milling (Hunding/Hagen), Tómas Tómasson (Alberich), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi
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Gregory Kunde on Then and Now
28th Oct 2024by Katherine Cooper
As he makes his role-debut as Britten's Captain Vere in Vienna, the indomitable American tenor discusses returning to the music which formed the soundtrack to his childhood on his new album Then And Now - a collection of jazz standards, released on Delos earlier this month.
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Jamie Barton on All Who Wander
20th Dec 2016by Katherine Cooper
Katherine talks to the American dramatic mezzo about her debut recital-disc of songs by Mahler, Sibelius and Dvorak.