Tag Archives: Marin Alsop

In Vienna, Lydia Steier stages Candide as a bawdy Broadway romp

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Mark Pullinger

Bernstein: Candide MusikTheater an der Wien, 21st January 2024 Opera? Operetta? Musical? Perhaps because Candide doesn’t slot into a neat category, it has struggled to find its niche in the repertoire. The work of a multitude of librettists – but … Continue reading →

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Rebellious Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, Marin Alsop and the OAE

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

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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From lamentation to jubilation: Bernstein celebrated in style by Marin Alsop

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Bernstein: LSO/Alsop **** Barbican, 8th November 2017 In the second half of the 20th century, no conductor did more to establish Mahler at the core of the symphonic repertoire than Leonard Bernstein. It was fitting, therefore, that Marin Alsop – Bernstein’s protégé in … Continue reading →

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Rhine Journey: curious and boisterous Schumann with the OAE

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Brahms/Schumann: Kopatchinskaja; OAE/Alsop *** Royal Festival Hall, 6th February 2016 Exaggerated claims were made for Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in recent weeks. It was his final orchestral work, composed shortly before he was admitted to an asylum. After his death, … Continue reading →

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Prom 76: Alsop and Kaufmann lead the Last Night revelries

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Last Night of the Proms; BBCSO/Alsop Royal Albert Hall, 12th September 2015 And so it ends. Eight weeks have sped past, there’s an autumnal chill in the air (though to be fair, it was there for much of August… and … Continue reading →

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