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Concert Reviews

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“Three B’s” Include an Astonishing Bloch

04/09/201228/08/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Stravinsky, Bloch, Michael Brown, and Brahms: Julio Elizalde (piano); Arnaud Sussmann and Jessica Lee (violins); Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu and Alan Iglitzin (violas); Patrick Jee and Nicholas Canellakis (cellos); Olympic Music Festival, Quilcene, WA, 26.8.2012 (BJ)

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

Lucerne Festival (LF1) A Question of Faith: Welser-Möst and the Clevelanders

04/09/201228/08/2012 by Stan

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lucerne Festival: Pintscher, Bruckner: The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) Kultur- und Kongresszentrum , Lucerne 25.8.12 (JR)

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

EIF 19: Anguish and Intensity in Henschel’s Delivery of Jedermann Monologues

04/09/201227/08/2012 by Stan

 

 

 

 

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Korngold, Wolf, Martin, Mahler: Dietrich Henschel (baritone)), Steven Osborne (piano), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 27.8.2012 (SRT)

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

EIF 18: Rhythmic Bartók and Riskfree Mahler from Fischer

06/02/201427/08/2012 by Stan

 






United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bartók, Mahler: Barnabás Kelemen (violin), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 26.8.2012 (SRT)

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

EIF 17: Schwanewilms and Martineau Complement Each Other in Morning of Song

18/01/201426/08/2012 by Stan

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Debussy, Wolf and Richard Strauss: Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 25.8.2012 (SRT)

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

EIF 16: Gustav Mahler Orchestra Impresses Despite Leaden Conducting

18/01/201426/08/2012 by Stan


 

 

 

 


United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Mahler: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (conductor), Usher Hall, 24.8.2012. (SRT)

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

Prom 52: Gergiev’s Disappointingly Inconsistent Cinderella at the Proms

27/08/201226/08/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 52: Prokofiev, Cinderella, London Symphony Orchestra, Valéry Gergiev (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 22.8.2012 (CC)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Concert Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Colin Clarke, London

Prom 50: Imaginative Programming from Vänskä and the BBC SO

27/08/201226/08/2012 by Stan

 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 50: Beethoven, Mozart, Delius, Nielsen: Michael Collins (basset clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor), 20 .8.2012. (GD)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Geoff Diggines, London
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