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Tag Archives: Debussy
Sumptuous Strauss from Louise Alder in Wigmore jump-in
Louise Alder & Gary Matthewman **** Wigmore Hall, 22nd July 2017 We anticipated a Ukrainian barihunk singing Tchaikovsky, but ended up with an English rose singing Strauss. “Travel problems” detained Andrei Bondarenko from making his Wigmore Hall recital, his place taken at … Continue reading
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Tagged Britten, Debussy, Gary Matthewman, Hahn, Liszt, Louise Alder, Poulenc, Richard Strauss
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A beguiling evening of exotic spice from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Debussy, Lalo, Rimsky-Korsakov: Soumm; Bournemouth SO/Gaffigan ***** The Anvil, Basingstoke, 5th May 2017 At this season’s Grange Festival, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is in the pit for Annabel Arden’s new production of Carmen. The first half of this concert could … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Soumm, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Debussy, James Gaffigan, Lalo, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, The Anvil
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Smudgy haze and glaring sunbursts: Boulez and Debussy juxtaposed by Salonen and the Philharmonia
Boulez, Debussy: Philharmonia/Salonen *** Royal Festival Hall, 4th May 2017 Adventurous programming – or “curation” to employ the overused term from this concert’s publicity – is welcome, particularly if it refreshes fusty routine. Instead of the usual conductor entrance to … Continue reading
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Tagged Boulez, Debussy, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
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Debussy moulded by Melnikov at Wigmore Hall
Debussy: Alexander Melnikov *** Wigmore Hall, 5th April 2017 Debussy’s Général Lavine, with his bugle calls, cake-walk and badly tuned banjo, wasn’t the only thing at Wigmore Hall deserving the descriptor “eccentric” last night. Alexander Melnikov’s recital, surveying both books … Continue reading
Le Bœuf sur le toit: Paris in the Roaring Twenties celebrated at the Institut français
Paris, Crazy Paris ! *** Institut français, 2nd April 2017 Picture the scene: Jean Wiéner playing Gershwin, accompanied by Jean Cocteau and Darius Milhaud on percussion; among the audience, Pablo Picasso, Sergei Diaghilev, Maurice Chevalier. The 1921 opening night of … Continue reading
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Tagged Debussy, François Chaplin, Gershwin, Institut français, Marcela Roggeri, Milhaud, Piazzolla, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns
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