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Concert Reviews

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Matthew Polenzani: Not Your Ordinary, Run-of-the-Mill Tenor

22/02/201510/02/2015 by Stan

 United StatesUnited States Beethoven, Liszt, Satie, Ravel, and Barber: Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 6.2.2015 (BJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Bernard Jacobson, Philadelphia Leave a comment

A String Quartet with a Light Touch

22/02/201510/02/2015 by Stan

United StatesUnited States  Bartók, Scandinavian folk music, and Nielsen: Danish Quartet, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.2.2015 (BJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Bernard Jacobson, Philadelphia Leave a comment

A Very ‘Russian’ Performance of the Pathétique

22/02/201510/02/2015 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky: Natalie Clein (cello), St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (conductor), Cadogan Hall, London, 9.2.2015 (AS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Alan Sanders, London Leave a comment

Refined Beethoven Under the Baton of Hans Graf

12/02/201509/02/2015 by Stan

SingaporeSingapore Beethoven, Shostakovich: Igor Yuzefovich (violin), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor), Esplanade Concert Hall Singapore, 07.02.2015 (RP)

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Categories Concert Reviews Tags Rick Perdian, Singapore

Andris Nelsons in Mozart and Bruckner

22/02/201509/02/2015 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Mozart, Bruckner: Paul Lewis (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 8.2.2105 (AS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Alan Sanders Leave a comment

Entertaining Performances by the Firebird Orchestra

22/02/201509/02/2015 by Claire Seymour

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  J.S. Bach, Haydn, Rossini and Mozart: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Firebird Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham (conductor), King’s Place London, 8.2.2015 (CS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Claire Seymour, London

Christopher Hogwood Remembered in Robert Levin/AAM Mozart Concert

27/05/202008/02/2015 by Geoff DIggines

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart: Academy of Ancient Music / Robert Levin (conductor and forte-piano), Barbican Hall, London, 4.2.2015. (GD)

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Musical Perfection from “Finest French Orchestra North of Calais”

22/02/201507/02/2015 by Simon Thompson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Franck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Ravel: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 06.02.2015 (SRT)

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