Unimaginative Dutilleux lacks atmosphere and allure
I had high hopes for this release. I love these 3 masterpieces from Dutilleux‘s first creative period, and to have them all on one CD (over 78 minutes of music) is very enticing. They are […]
New York Philharmonic – Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts John Williams’s score for Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The New York Philharmonic concluded this season’s ‘The Art of the Score’ series with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Watching the heartwarming story of the gentle lost alien and Elliott, the troubled […]
Lalo and (Enrique) Casals Cello Concertos
Although we perviously carried a release announcement of this release, it is perhaps good to have a more in-depth look (and listen!). The performance of the Lalo Cello Concerto in D-Minor celebrated his 200th birth […]
Combining disparate sounds with a bit of magic: Michel Godard and serpent in Göttingen
Atsushi Sakai (viola da gamba) and Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo) at PS.Halle, Einbeck Light the earth: Incantation: Handel, Jean de la Fontaine, Michel Lambert, Sieur de Saint Colombe, Marin Marais, Michel Godard; Michel Godard, Antje Rux, […]
Out of the Shadows: An evening of music by Brixton-based contemporary classical composer Robert Hugill
As part of 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre, Clapham’s celebration of queerness and theatre, on 16 June 2024, tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, baritone Jonathan Eyers and pianist Nigel Foster will be performing Out of the Shadows, featuring […]
Seong-Jin Cho at Carnegie Hall – Haydn, Ravel, Liszt
Four months after his Carnegie Hall appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seong-Jin Cho returned, opening with one of Haydn’s few Sonatas in a minor key. After the impatiently insistent opening came a suitably sprightly […]
More Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in the rare 1872 version
Until now, if one comes across Bruckner’s Second Symphony – a less likely scenario than encountering No. 3 – it would be in the 1877 version. Here is the 1872 score, almost unperformed but heard […]
Göttingen 1853: Johannes Brahms & Joseph Joachim, a meeting of musical minds evoked
Aula of Georg-August Universität, Göttingen (Photo: Stefan Flöper / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Bach, Joachim, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven; Shunske Sato, Shuann Chai, Wolfgang Sandberger; Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen at Aula of Georg-August UniversitätReviewed 13 May 2024 […]
Many trees, not so much wood: Klaus Mäkelä conducts Bruckner
Bruckner Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä. Kulturpalast, Dresden, 10.05.2024 Symphony No 5 (1875/76; 1878 version, ed. Leopold Nowak, Third Revised Edition of 2005) Klaus Mäkelä’s career is in stratospheric mode. He takes over the […]
Going out with a bang at Poole
Wednesday’s concert at the Lighthouse concluded one of the most imaginative orchestral partnerships in the UK. As the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s second-longest-serving chief conductor, Kirill Karabits bid farewell to colleagues in Poole following his fifteen-year […]
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