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Cavaleri’s Performance of Kohn’s Plutarch Quartet Makes an Impression

15/11/201509/11/2015 by Joseph Kovaks

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Haydn, Kohn, Beethoven: The Cavaleri Quartet, St Andrew’s Psalter Lane Church, Sheffield, 8.11.2015. (JK)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Joseph Kovacs, Sheffield 1 Comment

Jorge Luis Prats Initially Flirts with Disaster but Finishes Magnificently

15/11/201509/11/2015 by Geoffrey Newman

CanadaCanada Villa-Lobos, Albeniz, Chopin, Ravel, Cervantes: Jorge Luis Prats (piano), Vancouver Playhouse, 30.10.2015 (GN)

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Ten Tors Orchestra Maintains its Standards with Leland Chen

15/11/201509/11/2015 by Philip Buttall

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Beethoven: Leland Chen (violin), Ten Tors Orchestra / Simon Ible (conductor), Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth, 7.11.2015 (PRB)

Leland Chen photographed by Wolf Marloh on 09/07/2007 at 12:18:10. All rights reserved. No unauthorised use may be made.
Leland Chen photographed by Wolf Marloh

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Contrasting Romeo & Juliet Music from RSNO

15/11/201509/11/2015 by Simon Thompson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Prokofiev: Xiayin Wang (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 6.11.2015 (SRT)

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Wookyung Kim is a Great Success in Frankfurt’s Don Carlo

15/11/201508/11/2015 by José Irurzun

GermanyGermany Verdi, Don Carlo: Frankfurt Orchestra and Chorus, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), Opernhaus, Frankfurt, 7.11.2015. (JMI)

Don carlo
Frankfurt Opera’s Don Carlo (c) Barbara Aumüller

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Hubbard Street and The Second City: A Cocktail of Comedy and Dance in LA

15/11/201508/11/2015 by Jane Rosenberg

 United StatesUnited States The Art of Falling: Hubbard Street and The Second City, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 6.11.2015-8.11-2015. (JRo)

Photo (c) Todd Rosenberg
The Art of Falling (c) Todd Rosenberg

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Mahler with Hampson and Vogt in Vienna is cloaked in Schoenberg

15/11/201508/11/2015 by Seb Smallshaw

AustriaAustria Schoenberg, Mahler: Thomas Hampson, Klaus Florian Vogt, Wiener Virtuosen. Große Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, 1.11.2015. (SS)

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Frankfurt Stages a Splendid Revival of Korngold’s Moving Die Tote Stadt

09/11/201507/11/2015 by José Irurzun

GermanyGermany Korngold: Die Tote Stadt: Frankfurt Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Björn Huestege (conductor), Opernhaus, Frankfurt, 6.11.2015. (JMI)

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Frankfurt Opera’s Die Tote Stadt (c) Barbara Aumüller

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