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Dramatic Flow and Thematic Unity in Third Recital of Goethe Settings

22/10/201318/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 4 – Schubert, Wolf. Sophie Bevan (soprano), John Chest (baritone), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano): Holywell Music Room, Oxford 17.10.2013

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Curtis Rogers, Oxford

Sir Willard Heads Gala Evening of Song

22/10/201318/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 3 – Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Berlioz, Duparc, Quilter, Spirituals: Sylvia Kevorkian (soprano), Sir Willard White (bass-baritone), Eugene Asti (piano): St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford 15.10.2013 (CR)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Curtis Rogers, Oxford

Irvine Arditti’s Sixtieth Birthday Celebrated in Challenging and Stimulating Style

22/10/201318/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sixtieth birthday concert for Irvine Arditti: Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan (violins), Ralf Ehlers (viola), Lucas Fels (cello)). Wigmore Hall, London, 16.10.2013 (MB)

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

Trevor Pinnock Takes His Listeners on a Remarkable Musical Journey

22/10/201317/10/2013 by Stan
United KingdomUnited Kingdom   Cabezon, Byrd, Tallis, Bull, D. Scarlatti, J.S. Bach: Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 04.10.13  (GPu)

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

Carefully Nuanced Sheherazade from Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra

22/10/201317/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: Norika Ogawa (piano), Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Denis Lotoev (conductor). St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. 16.10.2013 (PCG)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Cardiff, Paul Corfield Godfrey

Musical Manchester Connections from the BBC Philharmonic

22/10/201317/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Arnold, Walton, Prokofiev: Midori (violin), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor), Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 12.10.2013 (MC)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Manchester, Michael Cookson

Bernard Haitink and the LSO: Masterly in Mozart and Shostakovich

01/11/201317/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart and Shostakovich: Emanuel Ax (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15.10.2013 (MB)

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

Lieder Recital Explores Goethe’s Lighter Side

22/10/201315/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival – Beethoven, Wolf, Loewe, Zelter, Schubert: Fflur Wyn (soprano), Rowan Hellier (mezzo-soprano), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano): Holywell Music Room, Oxford 14.10.2013 (CR)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Curtis Rogers, Oxford
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