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Feature Interview – John Lill on Beethoven – “I was told that in my recital last night there was a couple in the front row snogging, which is the last effect I thought I would have!”
Interview date: 3 October 2013, London As he approaches his seventieth birthday next year, on 17 March 2014, John Lill is embarking once again on a cycle of Beethoven’s 32...
Feature Interview – Igor Levit on Beethoven – “It just lives every minute, and does not take account of what the physical, mental and emotional effects might be.”
Interview date: August 2013 at Sony’s London headquarters together with a later phone conversation For his first recording as a Sony Classical artist, pianist Igor Levit has chosen to start...
Feature Review – The Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s 14th International Sibelius Festival
Last year’s Sibelius Festival held a concert of piano transcriptions of certain pieces of theatre incidental music. I wrote that, if I had to choose just one Sibelian idiom to...
Feature Preview: Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season 2013/14 [includes Nutcracker, Parsifal, Giselle, Don Giovanni, Sleeping Beauty]
“10 productions, 40 countries, over 1000 cinemas”. 17 September 2013 – The May Fair Hotel, Stratton Street, London W1 We gathered at the above address for a reception to launch...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2013-14: Eugene Onegin
The Classical Source brings you a quick guide to all ten of the Metropolitan opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #1: Eugene Onegin Who wrote it? It’s...
New Ross Piano Festival [A Review of 2012 and a Preview of 2013, 26-29 September]
Last year in September was my second visit to the small, picturesque town of New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland. Pianofiles cannot ask for much more than a festival across...
Feature Review: 2013 Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts
21-27 August 2013 Presteigne is a small Welsh town nestled just inside the principality, and has played host to this feast of (mainly British) music for over thirty years. The...
Cabaret Secrets by Gary Williams [Book Review]
Cabaret Secrets Gary Williams ISBN: 978-0-9576104-2-2 BOS Entertainment Is cabaret the most difficult branch of show business to get right? The answer is probably yes, particularly if it’s one person...
Feature Review: Speakers Corner LPs [Richard Strauss’s Elektra: Nilsson/Solti … Dvořák 8: LSO/Kertész]
Richard Strauss Elektra, Op.58 – Tragedy in one act to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmansthal, based on his own play after the tragedy by Sophocles Elektra – Birgit Nilsson...
Interview with Louis Lortie – At the BBC Proms on 7 August for Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto … and recording for Chandos
The music of Witold Lutosławski is one of the principal themes of BBC Proms 2013, the centenary of the composer’s birth having fallen on January 25. Prom 32, on 7...
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