Guest Contributors Archives - Page 15 of 16

Gustavo Gimeno conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony [live webcast]

Jun 5, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Friday, June 05, 2020 Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 10, 1071 LN Amsterdam, Netherlands Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Gustavo Gimeno’s pre-recorded Beethoven Seven, aired on Wednesday June 3 (and found on this site), was the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s...

Bergen International Festival – Leif Ove Andsnes & Members of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Mozart K466, K467 & K478 [live webcast]

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

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Oslo Konserthus, Munkedamsveien 14, 0115 Oslo, Norway Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Mozart Piano Quartet in G-minor, K478; Piano Concertos – No.20 in D-minor, K466 & No.21 in C, K467 Moved on practical and streaming grounds from Bergen to Oslo,...

Colour and Light – Twentieth-Century British Piano Music played by Nathan Williamson [Somm]

Jun 4, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Recording Reviews

Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga British-wise, I grew up pianistically on the likes of Frank Bridge, William Baines, Joseph Holbrooke and John Ireland – once, in a professorial Victorian drawing room in Kenway village, Earl’s Court, black Blüthner concert grand by the...

Lucy Crowe & Anna Tilbrook @ Wigmore Hall – Hope and Longing – Live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD video.

Jun 2, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Tuesday, June 02, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Mark Valencia The second in a welcome sequence of lunchtime concerts, all carried live on BBC Radio 3, marked the twenty-year professional partnership of soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Anna Tilbrook. That...

Members of Orchestre de Paris at Grande Salle Pierre Boulez – Richards Strauss & Wagner – Capriccio, Siegfried Idyll, Parsifal [live webcast]

May 28, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris, 221 Avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Britain’s concert halls stay shut, musicians in lockdown, prospects grim. But the lamps are coming out all over Europe. This...

Indeterminacy … written by Robert Matthew-Walker.

May 27, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights

This year and next see the centenaries of the births of several exceptional British composers, whose music has – it seems, naturally – suffered almost total neglect since their deaths, seemingly going the way of almost all posthumous flesh. They were very different...