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Tag Archives: Shostakovich
Bolshoi reflections: creaky drama and a rising star in London
Don Quixote, Swan Lake, The Taming of the Shrew, Le Corsaire We’re over a month into the BBC Proms season, yet I’ve only attended one concert thus far. What gives? Apart from a week away at Verbier Festival and Dorset … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Fadeyechev, Alexei Ratmansky, Artemy Belyakov, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Denis Rodkin, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Minkus, Olga Smirnova, Shostakovich, Svetlana Zakharova, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, The Taming of the Shrew, Yulia Stepanova, Yuri Grigorovich
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Kiss me, Katya: Bolshoi’s Shrew a slinky, sexy delight
Shostakovich: The Taming of the Shrew ***** Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House, 3rd August 2016 “If I be waspish, best beware my sting.” Thus the feisty Katharine warns off Petruchio in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, but he’s irresistibly … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Tikhomirova, Artemy Belyakov, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Ekaterina Krysanova, Igor Dronov, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin, Shostakovich, The Taming of the Shrew, Vladislav Lantratov
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Disappointing Russian fare from the Razumovsky Ensemble
Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky: Razumovsky Ensemble ** Wigmore Hall, 15th October 2015 There’s a sense of deflation when you visit a restaurant for the first time, encouraged by friends or enticed by the menu, and it doesn’t live up to expectations. … Continue reading
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Tagged Razumovsky Ensemble, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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Prom 76: Alsop and Kaufmann lead the Last Night revelries
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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Tagged BBC Proms, BBCSO, Benjamin Grosvenor, Danielle de Niese, Jonas Kaufmann, Marin Alsop, Pärt, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich
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