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Concert Reviews

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UK-Based Choir and Singers Perform Ukrainian Music in Kiev

13/08/202022/04/2014 by Stan

UkraineUkraine Stetsenko and Other Composers: The Bulava Chorus and Soloists / Pavlo Hunka (Director),  Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, Kiev, 20.4.2014. (RD)

Pavlo Hunka conducting the Bulava Chorus
Pavlo Hunka conducting the Bulava Chorus

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Kiev, Roderic Dunnett 2 Comments

Quiet Authority Instead of Histrionic Swoon

23/04/201421/04/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Dvořák, Tchaikovsky: Mark Kosower (cello), Cleveland Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, 17.4.2014 (MSJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Cleveland, Mark S. Jordan 1 Comment

Cameron Carpenter on a Not-So-Mighty Rodgers Organ

11/10/201521/04/2014 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States Bach, Mozart, Reger: Cameron Carpenter (organ), Virginia Repertory Theater, Mesa Performing Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona 16.4.14 (RP)

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“Interprète extraordinaire” Returns to his New Zealand Roots

23/04/201420/04/2014 by Stan

New ZealandNew Zealand,Gounod / Liszt , Lucien Johnson, Debussy, Jenny McLeod, Lilburn, Ravel, Chopin:Jeffrey Grice (piano), Adam Concert Room, NZ School of Music, Victoria University, lburn Campus, Wellington, New Zealand, 7.4.2014. (PM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Peter Mechen, Wellington Leave a comment

Memorable Vivaldi and Pergolesi

23/04/201419/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Roberta Invernezzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), The English Concert, Bernard Labadie (director). Wigmore Hall, London, 17.04.2014 (CC)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Colin Clarke, London Leave a comment

European Musicians and Steele-Perkins United in Musical Excellence

23/04/201418/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Handel, Mozart, Haydn: Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), European Union Chamber Orchestra / Hans-Peter Hofmann (director), Great Hall, Dartington, 16.4. 2014. (PRB)

European-Union Chamber Orchestar with Crispian Steele Perkins credit Philip R Buttall
European Union Chamber Orchestra with Crispian Steele-Perkins

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The St Matthew Passion in Leipzig: A Memorable Experience Despite Some Hasty Speeds

23/04/201418/04/2014 by Stan

GermanyGermany. Bach, St Matthew Passion:Soloists, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Michael Gläser (conductor). St Thomas’s Church, Leipzig, 17.4.2014 (MB)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Leipzig, Mark Berry Leave a comment

An Individual and Deeply Rewarding Recital from Radu Lupu

23/04/201418/04/2014 by Stan

GermanyGermany Schumann and Schubert :Radu Lupu (piano). Semperoper, Dresden, 16.4.2014 (MB)

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