Sunday, 4 December 2011

Mozart Unwrapped (9) - Cooper/ASMF/Janiczek, 3 January 2011

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Hall One, Kings Place Symphony no.51 in D major, KV 121/196 Concertone for two violins in C major, KV 190 Piano Concerto no.9 in E-flat ...
Thursday, 1 December 2011

Belcea Quartet - Beethoven, 1 December 2011

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Wigmore Hall String Quartet no.6 in B-flat major, op.18 no.6 String Quartet no.11 in F minor, op.95, ‘Quartett Serioso’ String Quartet n...
Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Garrick Ohlsson: Handel, Brahms, Liszt, and Scriabin, 29 November 2011

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Wigmore Hall Handel – Suite no.2 in F major, HWV 427 Brahms – Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, op.24 Liszt – Bénédiction de Di...
Monday, 28 November 2011

Letter published in International Record Review, December 2011 edition

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Dear Madam, I hope that it will not try patience unduly for me to respond to Robert Matthew-Walker’s reply to my letter (November 2011) c...

A Celebration of Cornelius Cardew, 27 November 2011

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Purcell Room February Piece 1959 February Piece 1960 February Piece 1961 The Fourth System Material Unintended Piano Music Croppy Bo...
Sunday, 27 November 2011

Tosca, English National Opera, 26 November 2011

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Coliseum Floria Tosca – Claire Rutter Mario Cavaradossi – Gwyn Hughes Jones Baron Scarpia – Anthony Michaels-Moore Cesare Angelotti – M...
Friday, 25 November 2011

Book Review: Helen Berry, The Castrato and His Wife

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This review was originally published  here for Times Higher Education . The author, so far as I am aware, is no relation to me... The Cas...

Diener/Philharmonia/Kluttig and Dohnányi: Schöllhorn, Strauss, and Mozart, 24 November 2011

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Royal Festival Hall Johannes Sch ö llhorn – Anamorphoses : Contrapunctus IV, VI, IX, XI, and Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu ...

Béatrice et Bénédict, Royal Academy Opera, 23 November 2011

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Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, Royal Academy of Music Somarone – Nicholas Crawley Léonato – James Wolstenholme Messenger, Archbishop – Johnny H...
Wednesday, 23 November 2011

The Queen of Spades, Opera North, 22 November 2011

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(sung in English) Barbican Theatre Lisa – Orla Boylan Countess – Dame Josephine Barstow Hermann – Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts Count Tomsky,...
Sunday, 20 November 2011

More from Baker, Leppard, and the ECO...

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This time, Ottavia's lament, 'Disprezzata regina,' from the greatest of all seventeenth-century operas, Monteverdi's L'i...
Saturday, 19 November 2011

Janet Baker and Raymond Leppard in Gluck's 'Le perfide Renaud me fuit'

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As a pendant to the recent review of Acis and Galatea , here are Dame Janet Baker and Raymond Leppard, again with the English Chamber Orches...
Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Acis and Galatea, ECO/Leppard, 15 November 2011

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Cadogan Hall Acis – Ed Lyon Galatea – Ruby Hughes Polyphemus – João Fernandes Damon – Richard Edgar-Wilson Dame Janet Baker (narrator...
Sunday, 13 November 2011

Handel's 'Hallelujah' Chorus sung as Berlusconi exits stage right

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The truly wonderful news is, of course, the resignation of the man who at times seemed close to buying Italy. However, it is more than a lit...

Eugene Onegin, English National Opera, 12 November 2011

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Coliseum Madame Larina – Diana Montague Tatiana – Amanda Echalaz Olga – Claudia Huckle Filipievna – Catherine Wyn-Rogers Eugene Onegin...
Saturday, 12 November 2011

Tan/Arensky Chamber Orchestra/Kunhardt - Stravinsky, Wagner, and Ravel, 10 November 2011

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Cadogan Hall Stravinsky – Pulcinella : Suite Wagner – Siegfried-Idyll Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major Melvyn Tan (piano) Arensky Ch...

Salzburg Festival, 2012

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New Intendant of the Festival, Alexander Pereira, the Festival President, Helga Rabl-Stadler, and Director of Drama, Sven-Erik Bechtolf,...