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RPO Opens Swansea Festival With Fine Beethoven, Brahms and Bruch

11/10/201109/10/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard, (conductor), Tasmin Little (violin), Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 8.10.2011 (NR)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Neil Reeve, Swansea

Very Satisfying Start to Freddy Kempf’s Beethoven Piano Concerto Project

10/10/201108/10/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven:   Freddy Kempf (piano / conductor), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 7.10.2011 (GPu)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Edinburgh, Glyn Pursglove

Atmospheric Debussy and Lyrical Rachmaninov from Denève, Lugansky and RSNO

10/10/201108/10/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Debussy, Rachmaninov : Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 07.10.2011 (SRT)

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

Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Shine in Mozart

10/10/201108/10/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Mozart Choral Music:  Laurence Kilsby (treble), Julie Cooper (soprano), Jeremy Kenyon (alto), Christopher Watson (tenor), Christopher Borrett (bass), Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum of Dean Close Preparatory School, Charivari Agréable, Benjamin Nicholas. Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 7.10.2011 (JQ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Cheltenham, John Quinn

Not Quite Smiles All Round: Beethoven, Barber and Haydn in Zurich

08/12/201108/10/2011 by Stan

SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Beethoven, Barber, Haydn: Tonhalle Orchestra, David Zinman( conductor), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Zurich Tonhalle, 6.10.2011 (JR)

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

Berg Replaces Beethoven in a Concert Of the “Three Bs”

10/10/201107/10/2011 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Bach, Berg, Brahms: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Alan Gilbert (violin and conductor), New York Philharmonic Orchestra,Avery Fisher Hall,New York, 5.10.2011(SSM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger

Raw, Visceral Playing from the Moscow Philharmonic In Edinburgh

10/10/201106/10/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky: Nikita Boriso-Glebsky (violin), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Simonov (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 05.10.2011 (SRT)

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

Sir Colin Davis and LSO Tackle Two Familiar Composers and One Unfamiliar

10/10/201106/10/2011 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Haydn, Nielsen, and Beethoven: Dame Mitsuko Uchida (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor). Barbican,London, 4.10.2011 (MB)

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