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Wigmore Hall – Paul Lewis plays a Haydn Sonata & Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations [Wigmore livestream]

Dec 10, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Haydn Sonata in C-minor, Hob.XVI/20, circa 1771. Beethoven Thirty-Three Variations in C-major on a Waltz of Diabelli, Opus 120, 1819-23. Habsburg music either side of the Revolution divide....

Orchestre de Paris – Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler 9 [live webcast]

Dec 9, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris Klaus Mäkelä, born 1996 in Helsinki, already has the Oslo Philharmonic embedded in his CV, add to which the Orchestre de Paris, of which he is music director designate, a position he begins...

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Klaus Mäkelä conducts Kodály, Debussy, Rolf Gupta, and Sibelius’s First Symphony [Virtual Circle webcast]

Dec 9, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Oslo Konserthus, Munkedamsveien 14, 0115 Oslo, Norway Broadcast Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga As conductors go Helsinki-born Klaus Mäkelä is young, not yet twenty-five, but with a career trajectory impressive beyond his years. He is the new chief...

Post #1,450: Members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales – Martyn Brabbins conducts Zemlinsky & Mahler (reduced) – with Sarah Connolly and Rowan Pierce.

Dec 8, 2020 | Concert Reviews

Recorded November 19, 2020, at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday December 8, 2020, at 7.30 p.m. Neither Zemlinsky’s Six Maeterlinck Songs (completed in 1913) nor Mahler’s Fourth Symphony were designed for our unprecedented Covid times in...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Alain Altinoglu conducts Stravinsky & Bizet [live webcast]

Dec 6, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Saturday, December 5, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In his mid-forties, the French conductor Alain Altinoglu, of Istanbul Armenian descent (his name translates as ‘Son of Gold’), studied at the...

WDR Symphony Orchestra – The Way to Victory: Music in Dialogue [livestream]

Dec 4, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Thursday, December 3, 2020 WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz, Cologne, Germany Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga During the late-fifties/early-sixties I developed a passion for Weber, the Konzertstück and Concertos occupying me at the piano, the two Symphonies taking me to the RCM...