Oct 23, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Thursday, October 22, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Liszt’s birthday but no more than a pianistic glimmer of the man in this recital, Jonathan Plowright focussing rather on his younger German contemporary, Brahms, with a nod in the direction of...
Oct 23, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Insights
Dalia Stasevska Thursday, October 22, 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 2 p.m. Guest Writer, Ateş Orga “The virtuosity of the orchestra … wiped out any reproach Englishmen may feel in the face of [visitors] from abroad” (The Times, 23 October 1930). Devised by two icons of radio...
Oct 18, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, October 17, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Early-music man fronting mainline orchestra taking on Classical repertory. Most do well if with occasional eccentricities (Harnoncourt) or bared extremes...
Oct 15, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Sunday, June 21, 2020 Goldener Saal, Musikverein, Vienna Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga While America’s orchestras and opera houses close down, French cities are under curfew, and the latest pandemic wave is calling for second/third tier restrictions across the United...
Oct 11, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, October 10, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga François-Xavier Roth, Baroque man, classico-romantic, arch modernist, treads where he wants, putting together programmes others might hesitate at. No baton,...
Oct 7, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Poland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Mentored by Arthur Rubinstein, the French pianist Marc Laforêt studied with Pierre Sancan at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1985 he won the Young Concert Artist International...