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Bournemouth SO Plumbs Emotional Depth in Elgar’s Second Symphony

16/11/201710/11/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Elgar: Jack Liebeck (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Richard Farnes (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole 8.11.2017. (IL)

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Standing Ovation for Vondráček’s Thunderous Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto

09/11/201703/11/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glinka, Kalinnikov, Rachmaninov: Lukás Vondráček (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kees Bakels (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 1.11.2017. (IL)

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Bournemouth SO’s Debussy Shimmers and Sparkles

30/10/201727/10/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Debussy, Chopin, D’Indy: Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Fabien Gabel (conductor), Lighthouse, Poole, 25.10.2017 (IL)

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Bournemouth SO’s new music ensemble, Kokoro, Premieres Jim Aitchison’s Sea of Music

24/05/201717/05/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Schubert, Aitchison: Kokoro / Mark Forkgen (conductor), The Guildhall, Poole, 13.5.2017. (IL)

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Steffens’s Bold and Noble Elgar First Symphony

16/05/201711/05/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Schumann, Elgar: Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Karl-Heinz Steffens (conductor), The Lighthouse, Poole, 10.5.2017. (IL)

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Karabits’s Mendelssohn ‘Reformation’ Symphony – a Revelation

10/04/201706/04/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: Johannes Moser (cello), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor). The Lighthouse, Poole, 5.4.2017. (IL)

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Kozhukhin’s dazzling Rachmaninov Fourth Piano Concerto.

28/03/201724/03/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Adams, Rachmaninov, Bernstein, Gershwin: Denis Kozhukhin (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor) The Lighthouse, Poole, 22.3.2017. (IL)

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Bournemouth SO’s Dynamic Rachmaninov Second Symphony

19/03/201717/03/2017 by Ian Lace

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven, Rachmaninov: Saleem Ashkar (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Méndez (conductor), Lighthouse, Poole, 15.3.2017. (IL)

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