Dec 1, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) Friday, December 1, 2023 Barbican Hall, London Sakari Oramo has conducted the ‘Eroica’ twice before In London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: in January 2014 alongside Robert Schumann and a Colin Matthews premiere, and during...
Nov 5, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, November 4, 2023 Orchestra Hall, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Music from Falla’s score for The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No.2, to begin, lilting rhythms and airy textures at first, then incisive...
Nov 4, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Alban Berg (1885-1935) Friday, November 3, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Following a few weeks of guest conductors, the Berliner Philharmoniker welcomed back Kirill Petrenko for this Austro-German programme, opening with Mozart’s...
Nov 3, 2023 | Concert Reviews
Friday, November 3, 2023 Teatro Monumental, Calle de Atocha, 65 Madrid, 28012 Spain Hunt for the broadcast! I did eventually find it, but in the process missed Cindy McTee’s Circuits, although it’s now quite a familiar – and welcome –...
Nov 1, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland The GB is George Benjamin and this was the first of four programmes (the composer conducting two of them, with the other being of chamber music), celebrating...
Oct 28, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Saturday, October 28, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Based entirely on this concert (I have not heard his Mozart recordings), Riccardo Minasi – with a baton-less conducting style that means business – would seem to interpret...