Ádám Fischer conducts the Danish Chamber Orchestra in Brahms’s First Symphony [live Virtual Circle webcast]
Sunday, March 7, 2021 DR Koncerthuset, Ørestads Blvd 13, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga “Brahms's First Symphony means to me a rainy afternoon. I'm sitting in my room and looking at the rain through the window, thinking about the past, my memories,...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Paavo Järvi conducts Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony, Igor Levit plays Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto [live webcast]
Sergei Prokofiev Saturday, March 6, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga A concert in the major and minor of E-flat, Paavo Järvi, wisdom, experience and humanity to the fore, adding to the mix with insightful cameos...
Many Happy Returns to jazz pianist & composer/arranger Dick Hyman, 94 today.
Sad news: pianist Dmitri Bashkirov has died at the age of 89.
Clare Hammond Variations on BIS.
Judging from the repertoire on this superbly recorded BIS release, produced and engineered by Thore Brinkmann at Potton Hall in Suffolk (December 2019), Clare Hammond is a pianist who stimulates the interest of the adventurous music-lover – and then delivers top...
Renaud Capuçon records Elgar’s Violin Concerto and Violin Sonata for Erato – with LSO & Simon Rattle, and Stephen Hough.
The Concerto (Elgar’s Opus 61, for Fritz Kreisler) was recorded during September last year at LSO St Luke’s, the London Symphony Orchestra photographed in the booklet as adopting social-distancing seating. The sound is excellent, spacious yet tangible, the orchestra...
JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic record Beethoven’s Eroica and the Adagio of Mahler 10 [Beau Fleuve]
I like JoAnn Falletta’s forward-moving yet shapely way with the first movement of the ‘Eroica’ – music that under her direction is going places and she persuasively omits the exposition repeat to underline momentum and ongoing achievement. With dedicated playing from...