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WNO’s Limited The Magic Flute Production Gets Redeemed by Some Excellent Singing

03/03/201918/02/2019 by Glyn Pursglove

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, The Magic Flute: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Damian Iorio (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 15.2.2019. (GPu)

Tamino (Ben Johnson) (c) Bill Cooper

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Sir Andrew Davis Launches ‘Berlioz: The Ultimate Romantic’

18/04/201917/02/2019 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Berlioz: Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Matthew Brook (bass), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor). BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 15.2.2019. (PCG)

Sir Andrew Davis © Dario Acosta

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Virtuosity, but not Veracity, from Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider at Wigmore Hall

03/03/201916/02/2019 by Claire Seymour

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin), Robert Kulek (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 13.2.2019. (CS)

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (c) Lars Gundersen
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (c) Lars Gundersen

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Categories Concert Reviews, This Week's Review, UK Concerts Tags Claire Seymour, London 1 Comment

Bold, Imaginative Programming for CBSO’s Successful Nordic Night in Coventry

22/02/201914/02/2019 by AUTHOR

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rautavaara, Sibelius, Grieg: Klara Ek (soprano), CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė -Tyla (conductor). Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 13.2.2019. (CP)

Mirga Gražinytė -Tyla (c) Vern Evans

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Clive Peacock, Coventry 1 Comment

ENO’s Triumphant Akhnaten Revival Shrouds Audiences in Minimalism and Provides Balm

22/02/201913/02/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glass, Akhnaten (performed in Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebrew and English): Soloists, Gandini Juggling Company, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Karen Kamensek (conductor), London Coliseum, 11.2.2019. (CC)

Anthony Roth Costanza (Akhnaten) © Jane Hobson.

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Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis’s Jazzy Violin Concerto in Glasgow

22/02/201912/02/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Thomas Adès, Gershwin, Wynton Marsalis: Nicola Benedetti (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra/ Thomas Søndergård (conductor), Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 9.9.2019. (GT)

Nicola Benedetti

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Fine Pianism and a Fascinatingly Diverse Programme from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

22/02/201911/02/2019 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Haydn, Schumann, Boulez, Ravel, and Prokofiev: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 10.2.2019. (MB)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (c) Chandos Records

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Oxford Philharmonic Offers Distinguished and Balanced Mozart

22/02/201911/02/2019 by Curtis Rogers

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart: Vilde Frang (violin) Lawrence Power (viola), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 9.2.2019. (CR)

Vilde Frang (c) Marco Borggreve

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