Glyn Pursglove – Page 2 – Seen and Heard International

Lortie’s sensitive and perceptive interpretations of music by Fauré and some who studied with him

08/02/2024 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Various: Louis Lortie (piano). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 4.2.2024. (GPu)

Louis Lortie at the Wigmore Hall © The Wigmore Hall Trust

Accomplished and delightful playing in a challenging programme of Mozart and Ligeti

06/02/2024 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Mozart, Ligeti: Ben Goldscheider Trio (Ben Goldscheider [horn], Callum Smart [violin], Richard Uttley [piano]). Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 2.2.2024. (GPu)

Vintage WNO production of The Barber of Seville stills works well, a timely affirmation of the comic vision

04/12/202103/10/2021 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Rossini, The Barber of Seville: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Frederick Brown (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 29.9.2021. (GPu)

(l-r) Nicholas Lester (Figaro), Heather Lowe (Rosina), Andrew Shore (Bartolo) and Nico Darmanin (Almaviva) (c) Richard Hubert Smith

Musical beauty from Joyce El-Khoury, Carlo Rizzi and WNO orchestra in an interesting, though not fully satisfying, Madam Butterfly

04/12/202130/09/2021 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Puccini, Madam Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.9.2021. (GPu)

Joyce El-Khoury (Cio-Cio-San) (c) Richard Hubert Smith

Nicky Spence’s intense Cardiff performance of Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared

30/03/202026/02/2020 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Janáček, Diary of One Who Disappeared: Nicky Spence (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano), Annie George (mezzo), Charlotte Forfar (soprano), Verity Belle Atkinson (soprano), Molly Beere (soprano). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 21.2.2020. (GPu)

Nicky Spence (c) Bertie Watson

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Lortie’s sensitive and perceptive interpretations of music by Fauré and some who studied with him

Accomplished and delightful playing in a challenging programme of Mozart and Ligeti

Vintage WNO production of The Barber of Seville stills works well, a timely affirmation of the comic vision

Musical beauty from Joyce El-Khoury, Carlo Rizzi and WNO orchestra in an interesting, though not fully satisfying, Madam Butterfly

Nicky Spence’s intense Cardiff performance of Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Outstanding playing from the Albion Quartet in Cardiff

Valiant attempt but WNO’s new Les vȇpres siciliennes can’t quite persuade one of its merits

Abundance of Mediterranean light and dark in an outstanding recital by Llŷr Williams