Dec 3, 2020 | Concert Reviews, News, Videos
Recorded on November 26 in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, without an audience, this Hallé opener is now available, as of midday today. I have been sent a preview link to the film. To open, Sir Mark (this orchestra’s long-serving music director) conducts the...
Nov 21, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, November 20, 2020 Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, Stockholm Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Civilised evenings come no better. Two masterworks of the Austrian school. A veteran at the helm. A rising soloist barely into his twenties. Artist in Residence with...
Nov 19, 2020 | Concert Reviews
Richard Whitehouse’s Classical Source review is but a click away: https://www.classicalsource.com/concert/cbso-centenary-of-the-first-concert-at-town-hall/
Nov 18, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Grażyna Bacewicz, 1909-69 Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Stepping in for Gianandrea Noseda (having had to withdraw due to travel restrictions), Paavo Järvi took over the London Symphony Orchestra for a programme traversing the relatively...
Nov 14, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, November 13, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga We all have landmarks in our lives, the shaping forces that endure. Among my earliest was sixty years ago, September 23 1960, my first encounter with...
Nov 12, 2020 | Concert Reviews
Benjamin Britten’s Dark Materials: Russian Funeral, Nocturne, Lachrymae, Death in Venice. Martyn Brabbins and the brass & percussion of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra opened with the lamenting processional that is Russian Funeral (1936, performed once, not...