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Concert Reviews

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Enthusiastic Response to Baroque Music at Dresden Festival

29/05/201322/05/2013 by Stan

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GermanyGermany  J.F. Fasch, J.A. Hasse, J.C. Bach, A. Vivaldi, J.D. Heinichen and G. F. Handel: Dresden Festival Orchestra/Ivor Bolton (director), Giuliano Carmignola (baroque violin), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Albertinum (Lichthof), Dresden, Germany, 20.5.2013 (MC)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Dresden, Michael Cookson

Ending a Season with Fiery 20th-Century Classics

29/05/201321/05/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  Bartók, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel: Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor), Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, New Jersey, 5.5.2013. (BH)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Bruce Hodges, Princeton

Expert Treatment of American Composers

29/05/201321/05/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Charles Ives, Bernard Herrmann, Aaron Copland, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein: Roderick Williams (baritone), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ​/ Matthew Coorey (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham 15.5.2013 (CT)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Birmingham, Christopher Thomas

Cincinnati’s Music Scene: A 2013-2014 Preview

26/08/201421/05/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  The Cincinnati Music Scene will be  rock-solid dependable and lively (RDA)

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Baroque on the High Seas: A Memorable Voyage.

29/05/201321/05/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin/director). St John’s, Smith Square, London, 18.5.2013 (CC)

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

Everything Great—and Everything Perplexing—from Rattle

29/05/201320/05/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Webern, Berg, Ligeti, Beethoven: Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York City, 17.5.2013 (DA)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags David Allen, New York

Luisotti and an Italian Showman in a Nino Rota Rarity

29/05/201320/05/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Puccini, Rota, Brahms: Giuseppe Albanese (piano), San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Cal Performances (co-presenter), Nicola Luisotti (conductor), Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley. 17.5.2013 (HS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Harvey Steiman, San Francisco

Civilized Mozart and Hair-Raising Shostakovich from Gerard Schwarz

29/05/201320/05/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States “Russian Spectacular”: Vladimir Feltsman (piano), Ignat Solzhenitsyn (piano, Julian Schwarz (cello), Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 9-17.5.2013 (BJ)

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