Oct 24, 2025 | Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, News, Videos
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pf) Salzburg; August 19, 1974 Pierre Boulez conducts Swingle Singers & Chicago Symphony Orchestra; May 31, 1995; Suntory Hall, Tokyo. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer. Performed by Swingle II. Live performance from the...
Aug 24, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, Concert Reviews
Never mind Italy, we started in Switzerland, the Overture to Rossini’s final opera, William Tell (featuring the man himself, his son, an apple and a crossbow), to a French libretto (the composer now living in Paris). The opening solo cellos lacked some charisma,...
Aug 23, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Saturday, August 23, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London In the first of two Proms, Klaus Mäkelä (conductor designate) and the Concertgebouw Orchestra opened with Luciano Berio’s late-1980s, thirty-five-minute Rendering, based on Schubert’s sketches (D936a) for...
Aug 1, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, Concert Reviews
Photo, Mark Allan Friday, August 1, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London The good news is that Cliburn-winner Yunchan Lim, so soon into his feted career, has taken up Rachmaninov’s wonderful if ‘Cinderella’ Fourth Piano Concerto (in its final revision)....
Jul 23, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Berio centenary - October 24, 2025, Boulez centenary - March 26, 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London 1925: Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio born, the Frenchman in March, the Italian October. Trombonist as clown in Berio’s Sequenza V. If anyone was napping in RAH or at home (R3 switched on), Lucas Ounissi’s...