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Tag Archives: Beethoven
Electrifying Beethoven from Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna
Prom 18: musicAeterna/ Currentzis ***** Royal Albert Hall, 28th July 2018 The most famous portraits of Beethoven feature the composer wearing a scowl and a furrowed brow. Perhaps conductor Teodor Currentzis, making his BBC Proms debut, was channelling old Ludwig last … Continue reading
A polished London debut recital from George Li
George Li *** St John’s, Smith Square, 20th March 2018 George Li is not a flashy pianist. There are no histrionics, no gurning, no gazing into the middle distance for poetic effect. Instead, the Chinese-American, silver medalist in the 2015 … Continue reading
Rebellious Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, Marin Alsop and the OAE
Beethoven: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Alsop **** Royal Festival Hall, 4th February 2018 It was Robert Schumann who called Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony “a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants”. Nestling between the revolutionary Eroica and the Fifth’s hammer blows … Continue reading
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Esther Yoo’s affectionate Tchaikovsky the highlight of a disappointing evening with the Philharmonia
Philharmonia/ Karl-Heinz Steffens ** Royal Festival Hall, 2nd November 2017 Eduard Hanslick had a sharp tongue and an even sharper pen. The critic savagely dismissed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as “music that stinks”, while his verdict on a two-piano play-through of … Continue reading
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A tale of two tenors as Méhul is celebrated by the OAE
Méhul et al: OAE/Cohen **** St John’s Smith Square, 10th February 2017 Étienne-Nicolas Méhul’s music isn’t familiar to most concert-goers. The only work which I know is his First Symphony, the finale of which contains a motif so similar to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Gluck, Jonathan Cohen, Jonathan Irvin, Kreutzer, Méhul, Michael Spyres, Mozart, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Salieri
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