Sunday, 10 November 2013

The Spectator goes far beyond Gergiev, even in his Enemies' Wildest Dreams: Ignorance and Homophobia Vie for Supremacy

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As ever, I hesitate to provide a link to something at least partly designed to do just that and thus to generate advertising revenue on the...
Friday, 8 November 2013

Die Zauberflöte, English National Opera,7 November 2013

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(sung in English, as The Magic Flute ) The Coliseum Tamino – Ben Johnson First Lady – Eleanor Dennis Second Lady – Clare Presland T...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013

For Hans Sachs's birthday: a free copy of The Wagner Journal to new readers

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5 November has many resonances, especially for Englishmen, but it is also Hans Sachs's birthday, the Nuremberg poet having been born o...
Saturday, 2 November 2013

LPO/Eschenbach - Messiaen: Des Canyons aux étoiles, 2 November 2013

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Royal Festival Hall Tzimon Barto (piano) John Ryan (horn) Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman (percussion) London Philharmonic Orchestra Chr...
Friday, 1 November 2013

Wozzeck, Royal Opera, 31 October 2013

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Gerhard Siegel (Captain), Wozzeck (Simon Keenlyside), Doctor (John Tomlinson)   Royal Opera House Captain – Gerhard Siegel Wo...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Wozzeck: Karl Böhm's Bergian reminiscences

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Wozzeck ,   to my mind the very greatest opera of the twentieth century, opens at Covent Garden on Thursday. Here Karl Böhm, a great champi...
Sunday, 27 October 2013

Tharaud/LPO/Nézet-Séguin - Poulenc and Prokofiev, 23 October 2013

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Royal Festival Hall Poulenc – Piano Concerto Prokofiev – Symphony no.7 in C-sharp minor, op.131 Poulenc – Stabat mater Alexa...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Greek, Music Theatre Wales, 22 October 2013

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Linbury Studio Theatre   Gwion Thomas and Sally Silver as Eddy's parents Images: Clive Barda   Eddy – Alastair Shelton-S...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Madama Butterfly, English National Opera, 21 October 2013

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(sung in English)   Coliseum Cio-Cio San – Mary Plazas Suzuki – Pamela Helen Stephen Pinkerton – Timothy Richards Sharples...
Monday, 21 October 2013

Book review: KM Knittel, Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

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KM Knittel, Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Ashgate: Farnham and Burlington, 2010), ISBN 9...
Friday, 18 October 2013

Royal Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair: Mozart, 18 October 2013

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Milton Court Concert Hall Divertimento in D major, KV 136/125 a Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, KV 364/320 d Symphony no.39 in ...