Fuoco SacroOpera confronts us with extremes of emotion, sometimes delivering unforgettable, life changing experiences. Fuoco Sacro ('Sacred Fire') seeks out singers who have the power to pierce our hearts, presenting three of them at work in the most intimate details of their rehearsals and preparations. Ermonela Jaho, Barbara Hannigan and Asmik Grigorian are watched closely as some of their secrets are revealed: how they inhabit their roles and transform words

The through line is metal

Pietsch has chosen the particularly striking Sonatas Nos 2 and 3 which are dedicated respectively to the violinists Jacques Thibaud and George Enescu

the barockwerk Hamburg ensemble very much wanted to discover more music by this wrongly neglected Hamburg composer

Piovene or Salvi find this singer exercising her customary intelligence

"inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral watching the shifting sunlight through stained glass

the sound has become rougher and the songs somewhat harder

fully realized triumph of a record from an art-punk band that's figured out how to focus on making great art

because every single line is deliberate

As host of various radio shows beginning in the early 1940s and later of his own TV show

sexually charged storm within

72pg Photobbook

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa