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2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] - concert reviewLush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewQuite an achievement: North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Smyth's The Prison that intrigued & engaged - concert reviewFrom Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating - interviewAlmost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role - opera reviewLittle short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows - record reviewUpheaval: cellist Janne Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918 - record reviewSomething astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National […]
2024-03-26 10:14:00
Young Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall
[…] was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewQuite an achievement: North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Smyth's The Prison that intrigued & engaged - concert reviewFrom Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating - interviewAlmost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role - opera reviewLittle short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows - record reviewUpheaval: cellist Janne Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918 - record reviewSomething astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National […]
2024-03-25 08:15:00
Lush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure
[…] free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewQuite an achievement: North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Smyth's The Prison that intrigued & engaged - concert reviewFrom Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating - interviewAlmost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role - opera reviewLittle short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows - record reviewUpheaval: cellist Janne Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918 - record reviewSomething astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National […]
2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
[…] and Stravinsky (the First Chamber Symphony and Pulcinella, with the CBSO conducted by Simon Rattle). And then, when, as a student, I bought my first ticket for a London piano recital, now taking a return rail journey from Cambridge, it was Pollini: in his beloved Chopin, which by now I knew well enough from recordings, above all those ever-astounding Études and Préludes. What it was, though, to hear him live, as I sat on the Royal Festival Hall stage, incredibly close to the master and his instrument. The technique was of course dazzling, Pollini’s pristine perfection taken by duller souls for a lack of depth or some other such nonsense. I read review after review in which the musical equivalent of the nouveaux riches would lament his technical ability, failing to realise that, like that of any great musician, it was in the service of a musical performance that would […]
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