May 21, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, May 21, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Haydn’s B-flat Symphony 102 occupied the first half. With the Berlin strings appropriately laid out, led (I’m pretty sure) by Rainer Honeck from the Vienna Philharmonic – antiphonal...
May 21, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
May 4, 1986, Royal Festival Hall – a hot ticket occasion, no doubt, but off of my radar of remembrance, so whether the complete evening is here, I know not, although at seventy-seven minutes there is little room on the disc for much else, for the first items are five...
May 20, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Celibidache’s conducting of Sibelius Five is indeed of “tremendous power and vision”. This performance from March 26, 1988 (Philharmonie im Gasteig) is not to be confused with a later account of the work (November 8, 1992;...
May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, May 13, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s operatic adaptation of Hamlet, which premiered at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival, has arrived at the Met, and their daring...
May 16, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Photo, Barbican/Mark Allan Sunday, May 15, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed The last time I heard Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra was in this venue in November 2019, just a few weeks before the pandemic got a grip. Then the...
May 14, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, May 13, 2022St John’s, Smith Square, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players (now simply Gabrieli) famously recorded their reconstruction of the coronation of a Venetian Doge in 1989. They did so again in 2012 –...