Friday, 31 December 2010

Some Thoughts on Anniversaries: Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, and LISZT

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Having an enforced New Year's Eve in – accursed ‘flu – and unable to set myself to any proper work, I started thinking about this year a...
Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Hänsel und Gretel, Royal Opera, 23 December 2010

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Royal Opera House (Images: Royal Opera/Johan Persson) Hänsel – Christine Rice Gretel – Ailish Tynan Gertrud – Yvonne Howard Peter – ...
Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Performances of the Year, 2010

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2010 has been a depressing year politically (can anyone remember one that was not?), but there has been much to celebrate in the arts. I am ...
Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Tallis Scholars - The Song of Mary, 21 December 2010

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St John's, Smith Square Taverner – Dum transisset Sabbatum Taverner – Magnificat à 4 John Plummer – Anna mater matris Taverner – Ma...
Saturday, 18 December 2010

Trekel/Martineau - German Song 1840-1850, 17 December 2010

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Wigmore Hall Mendelssohn – Warnung vor dem Rhein Venetianisches Gondellied Wanderlied Frühlingslied Altdeutsches Frühlingslied Nachtl...
Friday, 17 December 2010

Owing the World a Tannhäuser

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 Sándor Liezen-Mayer,  Venus and Tannhäuser , c .1875 (Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)  (originally published as a programme ...
Thursday, 16 December 2010

ECO/Leppard - Messiah, 15 December 2010

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Cadogan Hall Mary Bevan (soprano) Sarah-Jane Lewis (contralto) Joshua Ellicott (tenor) George Mosley (bass) Rodolfus Choir (chorus ma...
Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Piotr Anderszewski - Bach and Schumann, 14 December 2010

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Barbican Hall Bach – English Suite no.5 in E minor, BWV 810 Schumann – Six Canonic Etudes, op.56 (arr. Anderszewski) Schumann – Gesänge ...
Sunday, 12 December 2010

Tannhäuser, Royal Opera, 11 December 2010

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Tannhäuser – Johan Botha Elisabeth – Eva-Maria Westbroek Venus – Michaela Schuster Wolfram von Eschenb...
Saturday, 11 December 2010

Elliott Carter at 102

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Many happy returns to America's greatest composer! Is it already two years since we celebrated his centenary? The Southbank Centre's...
Monday, 6 December 2010

Hewitt/Philharmonia/Dohnányi - Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven, 5 December 2010

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Royal Festival Hall Mozart – Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, KV 467 Schubert – Symphony no.8 in B minor, ‘Unfinished’ Beethoven – Symph...
Friday, 3 December 2010

Steinbacher/Philharmonia/ Dohnányi - Weber, Schumann, and Brahms, 2 December 2010

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Royal Festival Hall Weber – Der Freischütz : Overture Schumann – Symphony no.1 in B-flat major, op.38, ‘Spring’ Brahms – Violin Concerto...
Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Così fan tutte, Royal Academy Opera, 29 November 2010

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Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, Royal Academy of Music (Don) Alfonso – Frederick Long Ferrando – Roberto Ortiz Guglielmo – Charles Rice Fiordil...
Friday, 26 November 2010

Claire Booth - Berio and Poulenc, 25 November 2010

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Hall One, Kings Place Berio – Sequenza III , for soprano Berio – Petite Suite * Poulenc – La voix humaine Claire Booth (soprano) Chr...