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Year: 2019

Prague Symphony Orchestra on tour with Mahler’s Third Symphony

26/11/201909/11/2019 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mahler: Ester Pavlů (mezzo-soprano), Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir, Cardiff Bach Choir, Swansea Bach Choir, Prague Symphony Orchestra / Pietari Inkinen (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 8.11.2019. (PCG)

Pietari Inkinen © Nguye Phuong

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Cardiff, Paul Corfield Godfrey 2 Comments

Pappano brings the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia to Zurich

26/11/201909/11/2019 by John Rhodes

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Weber, Chopin, Schumann: Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Francesco Piemontesi (piano). Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 8.11.2019. (JR)

Sir Antonio Pappano (c) Musacchio & Ianniello

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Haydn high jinks, and serious Baroque works, with Koopman in San Francisco

26/11/201909/11/2019 by Harvey Steiman

United StatesUnited States Jean-Féry Rebel, J.S. Bach, Haydn: Alexander Barantschik (violin), San Francisco Symphony / Ton Koopman (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 7.11.2019. (HS)

Alexander Barantschik (c) Terrence McCarthy

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Les Misérables – The Staged Concert is live in cinemas on 2 December 2019

30/04/202109/11/2019 by AUTHOR

LES MISÉRABLES ROCKS THE UK AND THE US

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY THE SOLD-OUT STAGED CONCERT FROM THE WEST END

FOR CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT LES MISÉRABLES – THE STAGED CONCERT CLICK HERE 

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Rewarding Wigmore Hall pairing of Finzi and Schubert by Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside

26/11/201909/11/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Voyage around Hardy: Finzi and Schubert: Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 6.11.2019. (CC)

Roderick Williams

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Interesting Purcell performances in Berlin  

26/11/201908/11/2019 by Mark Berry

GermanyGermany Purcell: Preussens Hofmusik (Laura Volkwein, Ulricke Bassenge [violins]; Helene Wilke [viola]; Egbert Schimmelpfennig [cello]; Joachim Klier [violone]; Joachim Elser [trombone]), Matthias Wilke (director, viola, organ). Apollosaal, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 7.11.2019. (MB)

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Takács Quartet’s rich palette: supreme artistry on full Wigmore Hall display

26/11/201908/11/2019 by Christopher Sallon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Haydn, Bartók and Mendelssohn: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes [violins], Geraldine Walther [viola], András Fejér [cello]), Wigmore Hall, London 5.11.2019. (CSa)

Takács Quartet (c) Amanda Tipton

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The pleasure of Albrecht Mayer’s oboe at Vancouver’s Chan Centre

26/11/201908/11/2019 by Geoffrey Newman

CanadaCanada Haydn, Mozart, Fiala: Albrecht Mayer (oboe, English horn and director), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Chan Centre, Vancouver, 25.10.2019. (GN)

Albrecht Mayer and the VSO. © Matthew Baird

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