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Concert Reviews

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Mellow, Burnished Tone from Vengerov

08/12/201303/12/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Franck, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky: Maxim Vengerov (violin), Marios Papadopoulos (piano). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 1.12.2013  (CR)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Curtis Rogers, Oxford Leave a comment

Galvanizing Choral Conclusion to Oxford’s Beethoven Festival

08/12/201303/12/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Beethoven: Julia Kogan (soprano), Diana Moore (mezzo soprano), James Edwards (tenor), Darren Jeffery (baritone), Beethoven Festival Chorus, Oxford Philomusica / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor), Beethoven Festival, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 30.11.2013 (CR)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Curtis Rogers, Oxford Leave a comment

Tension and Contrast in Oxford Philomusica’s Beethoven Festival

08/12/201303/12/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Beethoven: Oxford Philomusica / Marios Papadopoulos (pianist and conductor), Beethoven Festival, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 16.11.2013. (CR)

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Deeply Musical Brahms Once Again from Haitink and the COE

08/12/201302/12/2013 by Stan

NetherlandsNetherlands  Brahms: Janine Jansen (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor). Grote Zaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 29.11.2013 (MB)

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Marvellous Singing from Jacques Imbrailo in Recital

08/12/201302/12/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Vaughan Williams, Stephen Hough, Liszt, Butterworth: Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Alisdair Hogarth (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 30. 11.2013 (RB)

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Superb Schubertiade from the Gould Piano Trio

25/01/201401/12/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Schubert: Gould Piano Trio: Lucy Gould (violin), Alice Neary (cello), Benjamin Frith (piano)  Great Hall, Dartington, 29.11.2013 (PRB)

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Alsop Finds Warmth—and Loneliness—in Copland’s Third

08/12/201330/11/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  Barber, Schumann, Copland: David Fray (piano), Cleveland Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor) Severance Hall, Cleveland, 29.11.2013 (MSJ)

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A Touch of the Proms for Northwest Sinfonietta’s Britten Celebration

14/01/201430/11/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Purcell, Britten, and Elgar: Christopher Cock (tenor), Ryan Stewart (horn), Northwest Sinfonietta, Christophe Chagnard (conductor), Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle 15.11.2013 (BJ)

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