Friday, 13 September 2013

Wishing Arnold Schoenberg a very happy birthday...

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... and showing, with a little, or rather a great deal of, help from one of his greatest interpreters, Michael Gielen, why Schoenberg's ...
Thursday, 12 September 2013

Goerner: Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann, 11 September 2013

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Wigmore Hall   Mozart – Piano Sonata no.4 in E-flat major, KV 282/189 g Schumann – Kreisleriana , op.16 Schubert – Piano Sonata...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Brief programme note for Wagner Preludes

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(originally written for part of a programme note for the 2013 Salzburg Festival. Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perf...

Mozart and the Voice: Past and Present

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(originally published as a programme note for the 2013 Salzburg Festival)   The subject of Mozart and the voice extends to almost everyt...

Mozart’s Final Symphonic Triptych

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(originally published as a programme note for a Salzburg Festival concert, 2013, in which the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Simon ...

Aspects of Wagnerian Love: Sister, Bride, Wife and Son

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(originally published as a programme note to a Salzburg Festival Concert, August 2013: programme details below)   Richard Wagner (1813–1...

From Bayreuth to Leipzig: Wagner returning home for his 200th anniversary

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(a paper originally given at the OBERTO conference: Staging Operatic Anniversaries, at Oxford Brookes University, 10 September 2013)   ...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Prom 68: Skride/Oslo PO/Petrenko - Tchaikovsky, Szymanowski, and Rachmaninov, 2 September 2013

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  Royal Albert Hall Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.1 in G minor, op.13, ‘Winter Daydreams’ (revised version, 1874) Szymanowski – Violin...