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Cologne to Amsterdam, Mozart to Tchaikovsky, Levit to Bychkov: Livestream potpourri.

Jun 20, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Friday, June 19, 2020 WDR Symphony Orchestra, Kölner Philharmonie, Bischofsgartenstraße 1, 50667 Köln, Germany Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Concertgebouwplein 10, 1071 LN Amsterdam, Netherlands Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga These midsummer pandemic days are yielding...

Allan Clayton & James Baillieu @ Wigmore Hall – Robert Schumann’s Kerner-Lieder & English Song – Live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Video.

Jun 20, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Friday, June 19, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Amanda-Jane Doran Allan Clayton’s lyrical and powerful tenor and thoughtful, natural stagecraft were much in evidence in this Wigmore Hall recital with his brave selection of Schumann’s rarely performed...

Michael Collins & Michael McHale @ Wigmore Hall – Clarinet & Piano – Live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Video.

Jun 18, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Thursday, June 18, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Michaels Collins and McHale opened with Camille Saint-Saëns’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Opus 167, from 1921, one of his final compositional souvenirs. It’s a gem, the opening movement, of four, somewhat bittersweet,...

Ailish Tynan & Iain Burnside @ Wigmore Hall – Edvard Grieg, Hugo Wolf, Traditional Irish, The Wizard of Oz – Live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Video.

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...

Imogen Cooper @ Wigmore Hall – Beethoven & Schubert – Live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Video.

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...

Bergen Philharmonic: Grieg with Edward Gardner & Leif Ove Andsnes [live webcast]

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...