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Christina Guillaumier

A Night of Pianistic Poetry and the Magic of French Music

15/12/201407/12/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz:  Javier Perianes (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Matthias Pintscher (conductor), City Halls, Glasgow, 4.12.2014. (CG)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Christina Guillaumier, Glasgow

BBC SSO Opens Season with Dramatic and Uncompromising All-Russian Programme

06/10/201426/09/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Shostakovich: Barry Douglas (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, / Donald Runnicles (conductor), Barry Douglas piano, City Halls, Glasgow, 25.09.2014. (CG)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Christina Guillaumier, Glasgow

Energised Egarr Brings Warmth and Vitality to Classical Works

11/03/201408/03/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schubert, Haydn, Mozart: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (Conductor/Piano), City Halls, Glasgow, 07.03.2014.(CG)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Previously Published, UK Concerts Tags Christina Guillaumier, Edinburgh

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  • Blues and Brahms for violinist Randall Goosby’s YCA Encore performance at The Morgan (10/04/2021) __________________________________
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  • Offbeat Trio Elan’s winning Whangarei performance (05/04/2021) __________________________________
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  • VOCES8’s Fauré, Bach, Barber – and Elgar – Cadogan Hall concert is warming, consoling and beautiful (04/04/2021) __________________________________
  • Rare and wonderful recital from Christine Goerke for Cal Performances at Home (04/04/2021) __________________________________
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s remarkably powerful St John Passion streamed from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre (03/04/2021) __________________________________
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