She hasn’t released an album of new material since 1978 and hardly sang for 30 years – but now Shirley Collins is back with songs full of the stark strangeness that made her early work so powerful The ...
Rachmaninov's early opera Aleko, while scarcely a core repertoire piece, has long furnished Russian baritones with an impassioned aria that practically all of them carry in their portfolios. The title ...