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Andris Nelsons conducts the TMC Orchestra in their first concert of the season. Photo: Hilary Scott
A Tanglewood Diary 2023 – July 7-16
I spent ten days at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, which brings performers, teachers, and students together, enabling music lovers to experience a wide range of musical activities...
Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2023. Photo: Terrence Jamieson
Romsey Chamber Music Festival 2023 – May 30-June 4
Held annually since 2018, the Romsey Chamber Music Festival is one of Hampshire’s best-kept musical secrets. This year’s six-day festival, comprising ten events, featured repertoire given by an international group of conservatoire-trained musicians...
A Conductor’s no-nonsense response to a tempo dilemma
We are all influenced by our first exposures to greatness. Whether it is a person, structure or work of art, those initial contacts inform us for the rest of our...
Franz Welser-Möst. ©Julia Wesely
The Cleveland Orchestra in South Florida, January 2023. Franz Welser-Möst conducts Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ & Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’; Bernd Richard Deutsch’s Intensity, Respighi’s Feste romane & Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky
Venues: Dreyfoos Concert Hall, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, January 23; Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, January 27 The Cleveland Orchestra’s annual residency...
Photo: BSO Press Office
A Tanglewood Diary 2022 – July 7-16
I spent ten days at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, which brings performers, teachers and students together, enabling music-lovers to experience a wide range of activities and also...
Music for the End of Time – BBCSO Total Immersion – Theresienstadt
Music for the End of Time – BBCSO Total Immersion – Theresienstadt
It is impossible to take in the scale and thoroughness of what happened in Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech), the fortress town in Moravia that Nazi Germany recreated as a ghetto...
Cumbria Opera Festival's production of Mozart's Così fan tutte. Photograph: Christopher Tribble
Cumbria Opera Festival – Roderick Williams, Trouble in Tahiti, A Hand of Bridge, and Così fan tutte
Here are three reviews (the first two from Jane Bagot, the last from Colin Marston) of concerts that took place as part of Cumbria Opera Group's first ever Cumbria Opera...
Feature LP Review – Tchaikovsky|Fischer|Kreizberg; Nopigom|Hwang; Tchaikovsky|Leningrad|Mravinsky
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D, Op.35; Sérénade mélancolique, Op.26; Valse-Scherzo, Op.34; Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op.42* Julia Fischer (violin), Russian National Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor & piano*) Recorded at...
Feature LP Review – Beethoven|Cello Sonatas|Mainardi|Zecchi; Milstein Recital|Bussotti; Leonard-Morgan|American Dharma
Beethoven – The Cello Sonatas; Seven Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe' from Die Zauberflöte, WoO.46 Enrico Mainardi (cello) & Carlo Zecchi (piano) Recorded at the Beethovensaal, Hanover in October...
Feature LP Review – van der Aa|Time Falling; Massenet|Birmingham|Fremaux; Biber|Rosenkranz-Sonaten
Michel van der Aa – Time Falling Kate-Miller Heidke (singer), Netherlands Chamber Choir, Michel van der Aa & Thijs de Vlieger Recorded at Exalto Studios, Haarlem, 2019 Limited edition two...
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