Welsh National Opera's new season will focus on Fallen Women, and this orchestral concert was ostensibly connected to the theme of the operas being staged next month. But what would have been the ...

Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano, Jane Irwin and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a workshop session focussing on the five songs which Wagner composed to poems by Mathilde Wesendonck: ...

Wagner's own music for piano - three pieces, including a one-movement Sonata for Mathilde Wesendonck's Album - takes second place here to Rudy's accounts of the transcriptions. There are Liszt's ...

Soprano Miriam Murphy is back in Dublin to sing Wagner again, after her triumph (pictured) in Wide Open Opera’s Tristan und Isolde last autumn. Murphy is singing the Wesendonck Lieder, the polyamorous ...

Natasha Loges recommends the best recording of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder. These five settings of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck were written in the late 1850s, when Wagner was staying by their villa in ...