Over the past decade, Bruckner’s Symphonies have done very well by Sir Simon Rattle. He has performed and recorded the completion of No.9 by Nicola Samale, Giuseppe Mazzuca, John Phillips and Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs. More recently he has disentangled the various editions of No.4; and he has taken on Cohrs’s new Bruckner Urtext, which presumably will …
Great to be part of a well-filled auditorium. And what a performance of the Concerto it was. Entering in a flame-red dress Alina Ibragimova exuded seriousness of purpose and collaborative flair from the start, relishing the abrupt changes of mood, tempo and thematic inspiration in each of the movements but always with a winning smile …
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Leonard Bernstein’s Candide contains some very fine music without convincing as operetta or musical. It has been revived theatrically for London audiences with sporadic success, most notably perhaps at the National Theatre (1999) and Menier Chocolate Factory (2013), but it may be that semi-staged renditions like the one immortalised here represent the best way to keep this …
