Jun 17, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Amanda-Jane Doran Ailish Tynan is the most engaging and charismatic of performers, and she and Iain Burnside put together a programme of glorious song, exploring the depths of human emotion with the...
Jun 15, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Monday, June 15, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Time frame: 1822-23. Mingling place of middle-Europeans and exotic bloods. Biedermeier aesthetic. Franz I’s post-Napoleonic Vienna two centuries ago. 1822. Beethoven’s A-flat Sonata Opus...
Jun 15, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Monday, June 15, 2020 Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway On Edvard Grieg’s birth-date, in 1843, the Grieghallen re-opened (following Covid-19 shutdown) with a concert of his music played to an invited audience of no more than two-hundred, at least a seat’s gap between each...
Jun 13, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, June 13, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In these darkened auditorium, physically distanced lockdown days, the Berliner Philharmoniker, along with everyone else, has had to dispense with what would...
Jun 12, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, June 12, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Amanda-Jane Doran “In his programme entitled Woman’s Hour, British baritone and composer Roderick Williams invites the audience to consider the question ‘Should a man be singing these songs?’...
Jun 11, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Stockholms Konserthus, Hötorget 8, 10387 Stockholm, Sweden Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Another hall in lockdown. An audience – 1,770 – denied. Distanced players. Seeing out the current season, this Royal Stockholm Philharmonic programme...