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Tag Archives: Mark Elder
Binge-listening: a bumper Beethoven Weekender at the Barbican
Beethoven Weekender Barbican, 1st & 2nd February 2020 Ludwig overload? There are going to be many Beethoven cycles performed during this 250th anniversary year but probably none as concentrated as this: a binge-listen to the nine symphonies in just thirty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, David Butt Philip, Elizabeth Atherton, Hallé Choir, John Suchet, Kirill Karabits, Lars Vogt, Mark Elder, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Neal Davies, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Sarah Castle, Sir Mark Elder, The Hallé, Vasily Petrenko
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Beyond Egmont: a semi-revival for Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe
Donizetti: Le Duc d’Albe (Opera Rara) European wrangles in Brussels are nothing new. In Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe, Brussels is under Spanish rule, Count Egmont has just been beheaded and his daughter, Hélène, is inciting a Flemish revolt. The hot-headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Meade, David Stout, Donizetti, Gianluca Buratto, Laurent Naouri, Le Duc d'Albe, Mark Elder, Michael Spyres, Opera Rara, Opera Rara Chorus, The Hallé
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Les Martyrs: Revelatory Donizetti on disc from Opera Rara
Donizetti: Les Martyrs When Donizetti’s rarity Poliuto opened the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival a week ago, the music would already have been familiar to a number of audience members. Only last autumn, those operatic archaeologists Opera Rara had put on a … Continue reading
On angel’s wings: heavenly Berlioz from Susan Graham
Berlioz/Tchaikovsky: LSO/Elder **** Barbican Hall, 5th February 2015 Just occasionally, a musical experience is so exquisite, so divine, that you selfishly cannot bear to contemplate it ending. It’s that sensation of being so utterly caught up in the music’s rapt … Continue reading
Opera Rara: Donizetti’s Les Martyrs a revelation
Donizetti: Les Martyrs ***** Opera Rara, Royal Festival Hall, 4th November 2014 There is no shortage of rare Donizetti operas set in exotic locations – Emilia di Liverpool, Zoroaida di Granata, Harrison di Accrington (okay, artistic license exercised on that final one) – so … Continue reading
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Tagged Brindley Sherratt, Clive Bayley, David Kempster, Donizetti, Joyce El-Khoury, Les Martyrs, Mark Elder, Michael Spyres, Opera Rara, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Wynne Evans
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