Sunday, 1 February 2015

Where next for ENO?

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 The possibility of a new era dawning in Nikolaus Lehnhoff's excellent production of Parsifal for ENO Image: Richard Hubert Smith...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

Hagen Quartet - Mozart, 28 January 2015

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Wigmore Hall String Quartet no.20 in D major, KV 499, ‘Hoffmeister’ String Quartet no.21 in D major, KV 575 String Quartet no.22 ...

From Wagner's Ring to Moses und Aron and Stockhausen

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I was asked by Brian Wise of WQXR to contribute to a series in which the station took pieces from its Classical Countdown , its year-end lis...
Saturday, 24 January 2015

London Sinfonietta/Volkov: James Dillon, Stabat mater dolorosa, 21 January 2015

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Queen Elizabeth Hall Stabat mater dolorosa (London premiere) BBC Singers London Sinfonietta Sound Intermedia Ilan Volkov (con...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

L'Orfeo, Royal Opera, 13 January 2015

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Roundhouse Orfeo – Gyula Orendt Euridice – Mary Bevan Silvia (Messenger) – Susan Bickley First Pastor – Anthony Gregory Second ...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015

LSO/Rattle - Schumann, Das Paradies und die Peri, 11 January 2015

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Barbican Hall Peri – Sally Matthews Narrator – Mark Padmore Kate Royal (soprano) Bernarda Fink (contralto) Andrew Staples ...
Monday, 12 January 2015

Garrick Ohlsson - Scriabin, 6 January 2015

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Wigmore Hall Prelude in A minor, op.11 no.2 Piano Sonata no.2 in G-sharp minor, op.19 Etude in B-flat minor, op.8 no.11 Etude ...
Monday, 5 January 2015

Kaufmann/Deutsch - Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt, 4 January 2015

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Wigmore Hall Schumann – Kerner Lieder , op.35: no.1, ‘Lust der Sturmnacht’, no.4, ‘Erster Grün’, no.7, ‘Wanderung’, no.9, ‘Frage’, no.1...
Saturday, 3 January 2015

Tally of performances, 2014

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As before, I am not sure what, if anything, this indicates, but it is of interest to me at least. Clearly the figures reflect a mixture ...

Performances of the Year, 2014

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Again, I have limited myself to twelve: an arbitrary number, with a number of exclusions very difficult or impossible to justify, t...