BRINDLEY SHERRATT Interviewed by George Hall  Swedenborg Hall, Barter Street, London WC1A 2TH 6:30pm for 7pm, Thursday 4th April 2019 Brindley Sherratt, bass Born in Lancashire, bass Brindley Sherratt studied at the Royal Academy of Music, of which he is now a Fellow and Visiting Professor. Brindley Sherratt’s 2018/19 season includes Fafner in The Ring (more…)

ISOLDE’S DREAM A Life of Mathilde Wesendonck Judith Cabaud  I  outline how this book emerged from a long history of untruths in the official legend of the Wagner myth and its confrontation with reality. Documents give factual answers and the unpublished poetry of Mathilde reveal a completely different person from the one Wagner’s biographers have (more…)

Wagner and his influence on Elgar Alexander Walker On receipt of the solo section for the Angel in The Dream of Gerontius, Elgar’s publisher August Jaeger wrote in April 1900 to the composer: “Since Parsifal nothing of this mystic, religious kind of music has appeared to my knowledge that displays the same power and beauty (more…)