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Feature Review – Noise, Music and Enlightenment
Jonathan Nott and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra gave five concerts at the 2005 Edinburgh International Festival; Richard Whitehouse gives an overview of the week… The announcement earlier this year of…
Howard Shelley (Proms 2005 – Week 8)
Pianist Howard Shelley is a great explorer of the repertoire. At the Proms on Monday 5 September Howard plays Alan Rawsthorne’s Piano Concerto No. 2, “a great piece and not…
The Orchestra Stripped & Re-formed For Peace (Proms 2005 – Week 7)
Morgan Hayes has composed Strip for the Proms, premiered on 25 August, a work that looks at the essentials of the orchestra. Two nights later, musicians from around the globe…
James Judd (Proms 2005 – Week 6)
James Judd and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are going great guns, and recording for Naxos … and they’re at the Proms on August 18 playing music by Douglas Lilburn,…
Hartmann and Dalbavie (Proms 2005 – Week 5)
Ingo Metzmacher discusses Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony No.6, and Marc-André Dalbavie introduces his new Piano Concerto written for Leif Ove Andsnes… The coming week at the Proms includes a revival…
Bamberg Symphony – Back in Edinburgh
Having had success at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2003, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Nott have been invited back – for five concerts. It was time to visit…
Colin Matthews on British Music (Proms 2005 – Week 4)
Colin Matthews has added Pluto to Holst’s The Planets. He discusses this along with Vaughan Williams and Tippett, and there’s also Matthews’s ongoing orchestrations of Debussy’s Préludes, some now out…
Nicholas McGegan: Bach Without Fear
Who is entitled to play Bach? The music director of a period-instrument orchestra reclaims baroque music for modern players… More than 250 years after Johann Sebastian Bach’s death, amid all…
Vladimir Galuzin – Turandot and the Kirov Opera
The Russian tenor discusses the role of Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot and also Kirov Opera and its director Valery Gergiev… Seven operas in six days – that sounds about right…
Fraser Trainer (Proms 2005 – Week 3)
A new CD, a new violin concerto – education, too, and a day at the Proms featuring the violin and young musicians, amateurs joining with professionals. Fraser Trainer tells more……