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Tag Archives: Schubert
Sublime Schubert at Rencontres Musicales d’Évian
Quatuor Modigliani, Bertrand Chamayou, Yann Dubost, Gautier Capuçon La Grange au Lac, Évian, 6th July 2020 While UK concert halls remain closed to the public, my armchair travels have carried me far and wide, from the Musikverein to the Metropolitan … Continue reading
Schubertian joy from Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic
Welser-Möst/ Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Großer Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, 21st June 2020 Where its first subscription concert after the resumption of musical life was sober, serious, even defiant, here the Vienna Philharmonic let its hair down and had fun. Franz Welser-Möst, … Continue reading
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Tagged Franz Welser-Möst, Musikverein, Richard Strauss, Schubert, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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Dangerous Liaisons and Magic Horns close Oxford Lieder
Louise Alder, Nikolay Borchev, Konstantin Krimmel Oxford Lieder, 26th October 2019 There is something deliciously perverse about opening the final recital of a 16-day, 80-event song festival with an opera overture, but Sholto Kynoch, pianist, artistic director and programming mastermind … Continue reading
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Tagged Brahms, Doriana Tchakarova, Konstantin Krimmel, Loewe, Louise Alder, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Nikolay Borchev, Oxford Lieder, Richard Strauss, Schubert, Sholto Kynoch, Wolf
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Soporific Schubert, but peak Liszt from Khatia Buniatishvili
Khatia Buniatishvili Barbican, 1st April 2019 The cover of Khatia Buniatishvili’s new CD of Schubert features the Georgian pianist in Pre-Raphaelite pose as John Millais’ Ophelia, draped in white, clutching a sprig of hogweed, immersed in the water. I’m not … Continue reading
Shying away from Schubert: a Wigmore Hall Winter Journey
Schubert: Winterreise (in English) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn; Wigmore Hall, 6th November 2016 Confession: I’ve always found recitals of German Lieder difficult. It must be language related – bitter memories of spectacularly failing German O Level with its awkward sentence construction … Continue reading