Michael White's classical news: Howard Blake; Coronation concert; Kaija Saariaho; Jennifer Higdon; Scriabin; Salon Music
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Haydn’s The Creation is Paradise Lost without the Lost. True, the words aren’t exactly up there: translated into German by Haydn’s pal Baron van Swieten and subsequently retro-translated into some of the clumsiest, most endearingly rococo English ever set to music. But you get the idea. Near the start some demons get consigned (very efficiently)
Countertenor with a clean, focused and lyrical approach to both early and new music, including roles in two Britten operas