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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Birthday offering: Ibragimova and Tiberghien serve up less than vintage Mozart
Mozart: Violin Sonatas ** Wigmore Hall, 27th January 2015 As birthday parties go, this was a damp squib. Alina Ibragimova and her regular recital partner Cédric Tiberghien are presenting all of Mozart’s Violin Sonatas at Wigmore Hall this season. Tonight’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien, Mozart
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“Happiness was once so near us”: Onegin – the ballet
Outside the Verdi canon, my favourite opera is undoubtedly Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. I reviewed many productions of it for Opera Britannia: in the opera house, from the cinema and on DVD. Tchaikovsky ‘lyric scenes’ capture the essence of Pushkin’s verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherevichki, Francesca da Rimini, John Cranko, Marianela Núñez, Onegin, Royal Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Tchaikovsky, Thiago Soares
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The root of all evil: Jurowski and the LPO pair Rachmaninov’s Miserly Knight with Wagner’s greedy dwarf
Rachmaninov: The Miserly Knight/ Wagner: Das Rheingold *** LPO/Jurowski, 21st January 2015 Vladimir Jurowski is a wily programmer. The London Philharmonic’s season has been most interesting, their “Rachmaninoff Inside Out” series digging out rarities and putting them into context. In … Continue reading
Posted in Concert, Opera
Tagged Albert Shagidullin, Annabel Arden, Das Rheingold, Harriet Williams, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maxim Mikhailov, Natalya Romaniw, Peter Bronder, Rachmaninov, Rowan Hellier, Sergei Leiferkus, The Miserly Knight, Vsevolod Grivnov, Wagner
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New wine in old vodka bottles? Così fan tutte from Perm
Mozart: Così fan tutte (Sony) This is the second issue in the Mozart/ Da Ponte opera cycle from Perm, home to Europe’s easternmost opera house, and once again, Sony gives it the red carpet treatment. A hardback case, with glossy cobalt jacket, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Kasyan, Christopher Maltman, Così fan tutte, Kenneth Tarver, Konstantin Wolff, Malena Ernman, Mozart, MusicAEterna, Simone Kermes, Sony, Teodor Currentzis
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Fate, Falla and fandangos: a London Symphony Orchestra fiesta
London Symphony Orchestra/Zhang *** Barbican, 18th January 2015 Sunday night is fiesta night, or so it seemed at the Barbican, where the London Symphony took us on a whirlwind tour from Seville in Andalucia to the Asturias. There’s nothing especially … Continue reading
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Tagged Falla, London Symphony Orchestra, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Valentina Lisitsa, Verdi, Xian Zhang
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