Ashutosh Khandekar

Jul 10, 2024 | gramophone.co.uk | Ashutosh Khandekar

Ashutosh Khandekar The scene is straight out of a romantic novel: a beautiful young singer is about to give one of the most important solo performances of her career. Standing beside her is a tall, dark stranger, poised to conduct the orchestra. Their eyes lock and their hearts begin to race as the music starts to swirl around them. Love is in the air. And of course, Reader, she marries him.

Jan 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Ashutosh Khandekar

1 day agoA Holocaust survivor, she once said that she sought in her art to “recognize the nightmare but confirm rather than deny human life.” In late 2009, as she was about to turn 80, Vera Klement was spattering and brushing red paint onto a 6-by-7-foot canvas on the floor of her loft in Chicago where she …

Oct 2, 2023 | classical-music.com | Ashutosh Khandekar

Legros, Haute-contre de Gluck Arias by Laborde, Berton, Trial, Gluck, Gossec, Grétry et al Reinoud van Mechelen (tenor); A Nocte TemporisAlpha Classics ALPHA992 72:19 minsThe Belgian tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen is today's preeminent advocate of haute-contre singing, featuring a heady, focused falsetto in the high register, blended with more robust, chesty resonances lower down.

Aug 14, 2023 | classical-music.com | Ashutosh Khandekar

For a relatively short opera (of around 75 minutes), Cavalleria rusticana packs a sensational punch with its torrid tale of sexual jealousy and deadly violence. The work was created over two months of furious activity to meet the deadline for a competition organised by music publishers Casa Sonzogno. Mascagni set a story by a contemporary writer, Giovanni Verga, whose gritty novels and plays concern themselves with the dark passions lurking within ordinary lives in rural Sicily.

May 17, 2021 | classical-music.uk | Ashutosh Khandekar