A weekend in Riga to hear some of the best classical music? Yes please.
Customary end of year reflections.
If an amateur blogger creates content that compares well to anything a professional writer is churning out, its the delicate classical music writing ecosystem that’s in danger of extinction. There are some in the sector who think that may well be the best outcome.
How one tweet may well have put me off a brand for a long time.
If we want to see an illustration of how classical music brings a diverse community together, this is a good place to start.
My final listening instalment has got me closer to the experience I recall of the Proms from my ‘olden days’. A mixture of live, audio catch-up and TV broadcast has, in the final week, finally made good on the season. Dunedin Consort first. Full disclosure: school pal was on stage playing so my usual objectivity…
An evening of two halves. One better than the other.
The crazy perfection of Dieter Ammann’s piano concerto, Sheku’s much-heralded performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and what happened when I bumped into a Proms commentator
It’s a toss up between finding the ideal spot in the Royal Albert Hall or holding your nose and listening to the live broadcast. After my first visit to the Royal Albert Hall, I think its probably the latter.
A rich score, strong vocal lines and scintillating conversation at Glyndebourne at a performance of Barbe and Doucet’s production of Mozart’s Magic Flute