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London Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Järvi at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s [Idagio livestream]

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...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony [live webcast]

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...

As Joe Biden wins the White House as President-elect here is Leonard Slatkin’s Election Day Special.

Nov 7, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights

NOVEMBER 2020: Recovery Edition, Election Day Special Linked to with the author’s...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Strauss’s Metamorphosen & Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony … Sabina & 4’33” [live webcast]

Nov 1, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Saturday, October 31, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga A fortnight ago the Berliner Philharmoniker and Minkowski were regaling us with ‘period’ Haydn and Promethean Beethoven...

Wigmore Hall – Francesco Piemontesi plays Lachenmann, Schubert & Liszt [Wigmore livestream]

Oct 29, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga On another Covid-19 day of closures and lockdowns, our “out of control” world in hastening downward spiral, bleak prospects ahead, this recital from the Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi...

Wigmore Hall – Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver play Beethoven & Franck [Wigmore livestream]

Oct 26, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Monday, October 26, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Back in my Guildford days during the late-eighties/early-nineties all talk was about the local Hanslip family and their two prodigious daughters – Virginia, piano, and Chloë, violin, then not yet...