Thursday, 2 February 2012

Von Otter/LSO/Tilson Thomas - Debussy and Weill, 2 February 2012

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Barbican Hall Debussy – Dance sacrée et danse profane Weill – Die sieben Todsünden Debussy, orch. Robin Holloway – En blanc et noir Deb...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Jansen/LPO/Nézet-Séguin - Prokofiev, 1 February 2012

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Royal Festival Hall Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25, ‘Classical’ Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.63 Symphony no.5 in B-flat major, o...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Jonathan Harvey, Wagner Dream, BBC SO/Brabbins, 29 January 2012

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Barbican Hall Prakriti – Claire Booth Vairochana – Simon Bailey Mother – Hilary Summers Ananda – Andrew Staples Old Brahmin – Richard ...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

Der Rosenkavalier, English National Opera, 28 January 2012

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 Sarah Connolly as Octavian Images: Clive Barda/Arena PAL (sung in English) The Coliseum The Marschallin – Amanda Roocroft Octa...

Operatic characters we should meet

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In an idle moment, I set to thinking about a few 'characters' we hear mentioned but whom it would be interesting to encounter proper...
Saturday, 28 January 2012

Così fan tutte, Royal Opera, 27 January 2012

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Royal Opera House Ferrando – Charles Castronovo Guglielmo – Nikolai Borchev Don Alfonso – Sir Thomas Allen Fiordiligi – Malin Byström ...
Friday, 27 January 2012

For Mozart's birthday

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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Philharmonia/Salonen - Beethoven and Dallapiccola, Il prigioniero, 26 January 2012

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Royal Festival Hall Beethoven – Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67 Dallapiccola – Il prigioniero The Prisoner – Lauri Vasar The Mother – ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Furtwängler's Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, 1943

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Today marks Wilhelm Furtwängler's one hundred-and-twenty-sixth birthday. Who knows whether Mahler or Wagner were 'greater' condu...
Monday, 23 January 2012

R.I.P. Rita Gorr, 1926-2012

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Sunday, 22 January 2012

Belcea Quartet - Beethoven, 21 January 2012

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Wigmore Hall String Quartet no.2 in G major, op.18 no.2 String Quartet no.8 in E minor, op.59 no.2, ‘Razumovsky’ String Quartet no.14 in...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Barbican Centre 2012-13 season announced

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It took me a while to find the page from which one could explore further than a few selected highlights. To save you the trouble, click here...
Monday, 16 January 2012

Müller-Brachmann/Heilmann - Heine settings by Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, 16 January 2012

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Wigmore Hall Schubert – Schwanengesang , D 957: songs by Heine Brahms – Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht , op.96 no.1 Es schauen die Blu...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

A new Brahms piano piece to be performed by András Schiff

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A Brahms album leaf ( Albumblatt ) discovered by Christopher Hogwood when looking through a music collection in the USA, is to be given its ...
Friday, 13 January 2012

Ishizaka/LPO/Vedernikov - Prokofiev, 13 January 2012

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Royal Festival Hall Lieutenant Kijé : Suite Cello Concerto in E minor, op.58 Symphony no.7 in C-sharp minor, op.131 Danjulo Ishizaka (...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

What is so difficult to understand?

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Many readers will doubtless already have heard about the latest mobile telephone incident at a concert: a New York Philharmonic performa...

Thomas Quasthoff retires...

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... as noted by the excellent Von heute auf morgen blog: click here . The last time I heard him was in a Berlin  Winterreise with Daniel B...

Richter/Prégardien/Drake - Wolf, 10 January 2012

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Wigmore Hall Mörike-Lieder - Der Knabe und das Immlein - Nixe Binsefuss - Elfenlied - Begegnung - Der Gärtner - An die Geliebte - ...
Monday, 9 January 2012

Sacconi Quartet - Haydn, Bartók, and Schubert, 8 January 2012

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Hall One, Kings Place Haydn – String Quartet in G major, op.77 no.1 Bartók – String Quartet no.3 Schubert – String Quartet in D minor, D...
Friday, 6 January 2012

Christian Blackshaw - Mozart, 6 January 2011

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Wigmore Hall Piano Sonata no.1 in C major, KV 279/189 d Piano Sonata no.2 in F major, KV 280/189 e Piano Sonata no.8 in D major, KV 311/...