Sir Stephen Hough at Barbican Hall
Stephen Hough has been a fixture on Planet Piano for years, but there is nothing to take for granted in the completeness and freshness of his musicianship. Like an alchemist, he both challenges and deepens […]
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Royal College of Music – Opera Triple Bill – Britten, Weill and Ravel
The Royal College of Music gets in early with marking Ravel’s 150th-anniversary next year with this presentation of L’heure espagnole, although it completes a wider arc in that it presented his other, later one-Act opera in […]
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at The Lighthouse – Mark Wigglesworth conducts Wagner & Walton, and Nicholas McCarthy plays Ravel
This was an auspicious start to the relationship between the Bournemouth Symphony and its recently appointed Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. And in the first of five programmes this season at Poole with him, the BSO […]
New York Philharmonic – Paavo Järvi conducts Nielsen Five, with Yefim Bronfman playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto
A frequent visitor to the Philharmonic, having appeared with the orchestra over 150 times since his debut in 1978, Yefim Bronfman was a commanding presence on the as he delivered aglowing performance of Beethoven’s C-minor […]
New York Philharmonic – Paavo Järvi conducts Nielsen Five, with Yefim Bronfman playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto
A frequent visitor to the Philharmonic, having appeared with the orchestra over 150 times since his debut in 1978, Yefim Bronfman was a commanding presence on the as he delivered aglowing performance of Beethoven’s C-minor […]
Berliner Philharmoniker at Carnegie Hall – Kirill Petrenko conducts Rachmaninoff’s The Isle of the Dead & Dvořák 7, with Vilde Frang playing Korngold’s Violin Concerto
Two years after the Berliner Philharmoniker’s last visit to Carnegie Hall, the orchestra was back with Kirill Petrenko, opening with a rivetingaccount of The Isle of the Dead, Rachmaninoff’s tone poem inspired by a black […]
New York Philharmonic – John Adams conducts Pärt, Gabriella Smith, Copland and his own City Noir
Returning to the Philharmonic for the first time in 20 years, John Adams led a thoughtfully curated program devoted largely to celebrating American rural and urban scapes. Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, mourning the […]
New York Philharmonic – Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth and Sibelius 5 – Miah Persson sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs
This program exploring different stages of life opened with Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth, 2019, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the New World Symphony. The title pays homage to the young musicians of the NWS, […]
New Sussex Opera – Rutland Boughton’s Bethlehem
Among 20th century English composers, Rutland Boughton was once much more widely known than he is today, principally for two achievements – founding the first music festival at Glastonbury in 1914, intended to act as […]
New York Philharmonic – Susanna Mälkki conducts Strauss and Ravel – Leila Josefowicz plays Luca Francesconi’s Duende
The first half of this intriguing and memorable concert was taken up by Luca Francesconi’s Duende: The Dark Notes. Leila Josefowicz collaborated with the composer during the writing of the piece, which she premiered in […]
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