Category: Review
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BBC Proms 2019 – 13: Czech Philharmonic, Jonny Greenwood and Daniel Pioro
An evening of two halves. One better than the other.
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BBC Proms 2019 / 4: Proms Encore
The TV version of one long stream of classical music marketing tweets. A missed opportunity. Disappointing.
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Review: Verbier Festival 2019
Notes from a three-day trip to the mountainside music festival, now in its 26th year
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Review: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra play Weber Oberon Overture, Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2, and Mendelssohn ‘Scottish’
It was all about the detail. A blistering Prokofiev 2 from violinst Vadim Repin.
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Waterperry Opera Festival: talent, energy and rapport in a beautiful Oxfordshire setting
Waterperry Opera has a valuable USP and deserves to go from strength to strength Waterperry Opera Festival is underway this weekend. The four-day event based in and around the Regency grandeur of Waterperry House and Gardens in rural Oxfordshire, has built on its highly successful inaugural season in 2018 and has returned hoping its bigger…
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BBC Proms 2019 / 3 – Dvorak on TV, Ehnes’ Britten on the radio, and the burning sensation of shame
Documenting my experience of the BBC Proms 2019 in my own sweet time.
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BBC Proms 2019 / 2 – Dvorak Violin Concerto
Joshua Bell’s performance of Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, the warm sound of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Proms’ next big test.
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BBC Proms 2019 / 1 – First Night
A deceptive concert programme more compelling on radio than TV. On-screen presentation had a gratifyingly retrospective feel with some satsifying innovations and an engaging live feel.
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Review: Manchester Collective premieres Daniel Elms’ new work at Peckham CLF Art Cafe
Manchester Collective has found it’s London home with Daniel Elms’ capitivating Islandia
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Review: Corinthian Chamber Orchestra with trumpeter Alan Thomas and Michael Seal
Sometimes the most pleasant surprises are to be found in the most unexpected places.