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Concert Reviews

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Rossini’s Guglielmo Tell: Grand Opera Even in Concert Version

01/01/201515/12/2014 by NewAdmin

United StatesUnited States Rossini, Guglielmo Tell: Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda(director and conductor), Claudio Fenoglio (chorus master) Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York 7.12.2014 (SSM)

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Categories International Concerts, International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger Leave a comment

Trombone Recital is Thoroughly Engaging and Rewarding

15/12/201414/12/2014 by Simon Thompson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom   Sulek, Kenny, Sandström, Casterede, Bassman: Katy Jones (trombone), Christopher Williams (piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 28.11.2014. (GPu)

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Pons and SCO Give Exciting Performance of De Falla Works

09/01/201514/12/2014 by Simon Thompson

Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Falla: Antonio Meneses (cello) Maria Toledo (cantaora), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Josep Pons (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 13.12.2014 (SRT)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Edinburgh, Simon Thompson 1 Comment

Messiah from Tenebrae and Nigel Short

15/12/201414/12/2014 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Messiah: Grace Davidson (soprano), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano), David de Winter (tenor), William Gaunt (bass). Tenebrae, English Chamber Orchestra, Nigel Short (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 10.12.2014 (MB)

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A Less than Earth-Shattering Messiah

15/12/201412/12/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Messiah: Sophie Bevan (soprano); Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano); John Mark Ainsley (tenor); Ashley Roches (baritone); Chorus and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robert Howarth (director). Barbican Hall, London, 9.12.2014 (CC)

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

Piotr Anderszewski, Taking the Path Less Played

15/12/201412/12/2014 by Seb Smallshaw

Austria Schumann, Szymanowski, Bach: Piotr Anderszewski (pianist), Großer Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna. 26.11.2014 (SS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Seb Smallshaw, Vienna Leave a comment

The Chamber Classics Unwrapped Series Ends in Fine Style

15/12/201411/12/2014 by Claire Seymour
Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Claire Seymour, London Leave a comment

An Inexhaustible Source of Superb Quartets  

15/12/201411/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Brahms: Dover Quartet, Roberto Diaz (viola), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 9.12.2014 (BJ)

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