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Feb 22, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) Saturday, February 20, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The Philharmoniker’s Golden Twenties “online festival” looks back to the Weimar Republic and a decade when, to quote their...
Feb 19, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Filmed at St John’s, Smith Square, London Streamed on the London Mozart Players’ website on Thursday, February 18, 2021, and available to view until September Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The London Mozart Players’ popular Piano Explored lunchtime series at...
Feb 5, 2021 | Concert Reviews
Colin Matthews Friday, February 5, 2021 @ BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Richard Blackford’s The Better Angels of Our Nature (2014), for oboe and strings, kicked things off. The title owes to words included by Abraham Lincoln as part of his inaugural address of 1861. The...
Feb 4, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) Recorded last month at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, London and first broadcast on Marquee TV on Thursday, February 4, 2021 The surprise, because not billed in pre-publicity, was the opening Dvořák Wind Serenade (Opus 44, for twelve players,...
Feb 3, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-87) Recorded last month and first streamed on Wigmore’s Hall’s website on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Steven Isserlis has had many distinguished concert and recording partnerships over the years. But his new one with the...
Feb 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Recorded last month and first streamed on Wigmore’s Hall’s website on Monday February 1, 2021 Four chips off the Beethovenian block were central to Cédric Tiberghien’s programme, each WoO (Werke ohne Opuszahl) set of Variations based on an operatic source (Winter,...
