Review | End of Season Opera Hits and Misses in Berlin
Few cities in the world can rival Berlin’s operatic riches. Three major opera houses—Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Komische Oper—sustain an astonishingly…
Browsing: Magdalena Kozena
Report | Musikfest Berlin: Period Beethoven & Italian-tinged Debussy Week 2 Highlights
Even though one of the main focuses of Musikfest Berlin is newer music of the 20th and 21st centuries, it also holds a place for…
Lebrecht Weekly | Debussy, Messiaen: L’extase (Pentatone)
There is a line of beauty that runs through French vocal music, from Debussy to Messiaen to Boulez, which exists to the exclusion of all…
Lebrecht Weekly | Magdalena Kozena Offers a Vivid Recital Recording
The first we heard of Magdalena Kozena was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22.
Lebrecht Weekly | Folk Songs: Magdalena Kozena/Simon Rattle (Pentatone)
Nothing seemed to add up on my first encounter with Magdalena Kozena’s trawl through four sets of folk songs orchestrated by Bela Bartok, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel and the Spaniard Xavier Montsalvatge.
