Sunday, 31 January 2010

Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim - Beethoven and Schoenberg (2), 31 January 2010

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Royal Festival Hall Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht , op.4 Beethoven – Piano Concerto no.5 in E-flat major, op.73, ‘Emperor’ Daniel Barenboim (...
Saturday, 30 January 2010

Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim - Beethoven and Schoenberg (1), 29 January 2010

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Royal Festival Hall Beethoven – Piano Concerto no.1 in C major, op.15 Schoenberg – Pelleas und Melisande , op.5 Daniel Barenboim (piano/cond...
Sunday, 24 January 2010

Psappha - Peter Maxwell Davies concerts, 23 January 2010

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Hall One, Kings Place Davies – Image, Reflection, Shadow (1982) Purcell-Davies – Fantasia and Two Pavans (1968) Davies – Hymnos , for clarin...
Saturday, 23 January 2010

The Rake's Progress, Royal Opera, 22 January 2010

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Trulove – Jeremy White Anne Trulove – Rosemary Joshua Tom Rakewell – Toby Spence Nick Shadow – Kyle Ketelse...
Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Henze, Phaedra, Ensemble Modern/Boder, 17 January 2010

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Barbican Hall Phaedra – Maria Riccarda Wesseling Aphrodite – Marlis Petersen Minotaur – Lauri Vasar Artemis – Axel Köhler Hippolytus –...

Total Immersion – Hans Werner Henze Composer Day, 16 January 2010

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Barbican Centre Voices Vocal Soloists from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Guildhall New Music Ensemble Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Elektra - LSO/Gergiev, 12 January 2010

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Barbican Hall Elektra – Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet Chrysothemis – Angela Denoke Klytemnestra – Felicity Palmer Orest – Matthias Goerne Aegist...
Monday, 11 January 2010

Boulez anniversary year and interview

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There is an interesting interview with Pierre Boulez in the New York Times from a few days ago. (I am not sure I have ever read an unintere...
Sunday, 3 January 2010

Auryn Quartet, Beethoven, 3 January 2010

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Wigmore Hall String Quartet no.3 in D major, op.18 no.3 String Quartet no.12 in E-flat major, op.127 String Quartet no.1 in F major, op.18 n...
Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Performances of the Year 2009

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This really has been a year full of wonderful performances. Even singling out a goodly number entails almost arbitrarily excluding others. I...

Doric String Quartet - Mozart, Janáček and Beethoven, 29 December 2009

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Wigmore Hall Mozart – String Quartet no.15 in D minor, KV 421 Janáček – String Quartet no.2, ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven – String Quartet n...
Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Der Rosenkavalier, Royal Opera, 22 December 2009

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Die Feldmarschallin Fürstin Werdenberg – Soile Isokoski Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau – Peter Rose Octav...

The Love for Three Oranges, Komische Oper Berlin, 20 December 2009

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(sung in German as Die Liebe zu drei Orangen ) Fata Morgana – Aurelia Hajek Celio – Jan Martinik The King of Clubs – Carsten Sabrowski The P...
Thursday, 24 December 2009

Al gran sole carico d'amore, Oper Leipzig, 19 December 2009

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Pictures © Andreas Birkigt Leipzig Opera House Tania Bunke/Louise Michel/Deola/Communard/Vietnamese Woman – Carmen Fuggus, Kathrin Göring, S...
Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Lohengrin, Oper Leipzig, 18 December 2009

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Pictures © Andreas Birkigt Leipzig Opera House Herald – Jürgen Kurth Elsa – Gun-Brit Barkmin Friedrich von Telramund – Hans-Joac...
Saturday, 19 December 2009

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Inkinen - Messiaen, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, 17 December 2009

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Großer Saal, Gewandhaus, Leipzig Messiaen – Un sourire Mozart – Symphony no.29 in A major, KV 201 Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.4 in F minor, op...