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Tag Archives: Mozart
Period clarinet heaven from Lorenzo Coppola at Wigmore Hall
Lorenzo Coppola et al **** Wigmore Hall, 10th January 2018 The clarinet quintets by Mozart and Brahms make the perfect concert pairing. Both were late works inspired by friendships with great musicians – Anton Stadler in Mozart’s case, and Richard … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Katharina Schreiber, Brahms, Emmanuel Balssa, Haydn, Isabelle Faust, Lorenzo Coppola, Mozart, Yoshiko Morita
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Getting to the heart of Don Alfonso: Così fan tutte revived for Glyndebourne Tour
Mozart: Così fan tutte **** Glyndebourne, 13th October 2017 I often wonder what happened to Don Alfonso to make him so cynical. In a recent programme note, conductor Philippe Jordan expounds his theory that, in the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas, … Continue reading
One for sorrow: Claus Guth directs a taut, dark Clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito *** Glyndebourne, 26th July 2017 A single magpie settles on a branch beside a lake. Two boys stalk through the long reeds. The older one hands the younger, fair-haired lad a slingshot and watches as … Continue reading
A rake’s progress: Mozart’s Don Giovanni let loose in Aix
Mozart: Don Giovanni ***** Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence Less than 24 hours after Stravinsky’s Rake bounded his way across the stage of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, it was the turn of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (whose complete title is The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) to face … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre de Dardel, Cercle de l'Harmonie, David Leigh, Don Giovanni, Eleonora Buratto, English Voices, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Isabel Leonard, Jean-François Sivadier, Jérémie Rhorer, Julie Fuchs, Krzysztof Bączyk, Mozart, Nahuel di Pierro, Pavol Breslik, Philippe Sly, Virginie Gervaise
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Belcea Quartet excels in Britten and Shostakovich at Aldeburgh Festival
Britten, Shostakovich, Mozart, Widmann **** Belcea Quartet, Jörg Widmann, Piotr Anderszewski, Snape Maltings Benjamin Britten’s spirit haunts Snape Maltings just as the ghosts of his final opera Death in Venice haunt his Third String Quartet. Resignation and isolation are etched into its … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldeburgh Festival, Belcea Quartet, Britten, Jörg Widmann, Mozart, Piotr Anderszewski, Shostakovich, Snape Maltings
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