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Dunedin Consort Display Contrapuntal Skills in Bach’s Heavenly War

26/11/201224/11/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Bach, Zelenka: Dunedin Consort, John Butt (director), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 23.11.2012 (SRT)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Edinburgh, Simon Thompson

An Opera Salvaged from the Holocaust

26/11/201224/11/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  Bloch, Lavry, and Ullmann:  Soloists, Ludovic Morlot (conductor), Erich Parce (director), chamber orchestra; Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 16.11.2012 (BJ)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Bernard Jacobson, Seattle

Ax Offers Musical Mastery Coupled with Warm Humanity

26/11/201224/11/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  Brahms, Dutilleux, and Strauss: Ludovic Morlot (conductor), Emanuel Ax (piano), Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 15.11.2012 (BJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Bernard Jacobson, Seattle

Reinis Zarins Impresses at Wigmore Hall

26/11/201223/11/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Mozart, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bloch, Schumann:   Reinis Zarins (piano) Wigmore Hall, London 21.11.2012 (RB)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags London, Robert Beattie

A Superb Anticipation of the Britten Centenary

26/11/201223/11/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Purcell, Tippett, Handel, and Britten: Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Britten Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shave (director/violin), Richard Hetherington (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 22.11.2012 (MB)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags London, Mark Berry

Elder and the Tonhalle in Fauré and Dvorak

26/11/201223/11/2012 by Stan

SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Fauré, Dvorak:  Tonhalle Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder (conductor), Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Zürcher Sing-Akademie (chorus-master Tim Brown), Zurich 22.11.2012  JR

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags John Rhodes, Zurich

Surefooted Playing of Janáček by Cavaleri Quartet

05/02/201323/11/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Janáček: Caveleri StringQuartet: Anna Harpham, Ciaram McCabe (violins), Ann Beilby (viola), Rowena Calvert (cello). Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum, Cardiff 20.11.11 (GPu)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Do Not Print in Recent Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Cardiff, Glyn Pursglove

Imagine a Magic Flute Without Sonority

26/11/201222/11/2012 by Stan

ItalyItaly  Mozart, Die Zauberflöte in concert form:  Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin.  RIAS Kammerchor.  Conductor, René Jacobs. Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.  Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome.  21.11.2012 (JB)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jack Buckley, Rome
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