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Concert Reviews

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Super Bowl Sunday with Dudamel’s Mahler Ninth

15/02/201208/02/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mahler: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 5.2.2012 (LV)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Laurence Vittes, Los Angeles

Thrilling Virtuosity from Marc-André Hamelin

15/02/201208/02/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Haydn, Stockhausen, Villa-Lobos, Liszt: Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Wigmore Hall, London 6.2.2012 (RB)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags London, Robert Beattie

Jiří Bĕlohlávek Takes Leave of BBC Orchestra with Dvořák Opera

15/02/201207/02/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dvořák Jakobín:  (sung in Czech, with English surtitles). Soloists, BBC Singers, Trinity Boys’ Choir & Old Palace Chamber Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jiří Bĕlohlávek (concuctor), Barbican Hall, London, 4.2.2012. (CC)

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

Accomplishment and Promise from The Benyounes Quartet

11/08/202007/02/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Haydn, Brahms: The Benyounes Quartet: Zara Benyounes, Emily Holland (violin), Sara Roberts (viola) Kim Vaughan (cello). Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 5.2.2012. (GP)

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Categories Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Cardiff, Glyn Pursglove

Alternative and Conventional Energy from Muti and Chicago

15/02/201207/02/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  Honegger, Bates, Franck: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Symphony Center, Chicago, 3.2.2012 (JLZ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Chicago, James L. Zychowicz

Grandeur and Bleakness in Mark Padmore’s Winterreise

10/02/201207/02/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schubert, Winterreise: Mark Padmore (tenor), Paul Lewis (piano), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 6.2.2012 (SRT)

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

SCMS Winter Festival Showcases Brahms Quartets

07/02/201207/02/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Brahms, Mozart, Shostakovich, Schubert, Dvořák, Prokofiev: Seattle Chamber Music Society artists, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle. 2 & 5.2.2012 (BJ)

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

Two Old Friends and Old Masters at Work: Haitink and Perahia in Beethoven

07/02/201207/02/2012 by Stan

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Beethoven: Tonhalle Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor), Murray Perahia (Piano), Zurich 3.2.12 (JR)

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