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Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Tchaikovsky [live Idagio webcast]

Jan 23, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Friday, January 22, 2021 Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag, Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In the midst of high-profile cancellations, starved of music-making these past months, hungry to get back, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under its music director Paavo...

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France – Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Sibelius, Dessner and Tchaikovsky [live webcast]

Jan 22, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Friday, January 22, 2021 Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris The respective if very-different Sixth Symphonies of Sibelius – which he likened to “cold water” – and Tchaikovsky – his impassioned/prophetic farewell to life – found themselves bookending the...

Hallé Winter Season, Episode 3: The Event Horizon.

Jan 19, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Simon Armitage (poet laureate) speaks, Jonathan Bloxham conducts (pictured; Hallé debut). Aaron Copland’s Quiet City (trumpet, cor anglais, strings) is first up, nocturnal reflections, emotions simmering – very well done in this recording from Hallé St Peter’s. There...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov – Romeo and Juliet, The Isle of the Dead, Francesca da Rimini [live webcast]

Jan 17, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Arnold Böcklin’s painting, Die Toteninsel, which, when he saw it as a black & white print, inspired Rachmaninov to compose The Isle of the Dead. Max Klinger’s etching-and-aquatint copy was widely popular. Böcklin’s “Basel”...

Post #1,600: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse – Robert Schumann – Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Fourth Symphony, Adam Laloum plays the Piano Concerto [live Medici webcast]

Jan 9, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Maxim Emelyanychev Friday, January 8, 2021 Halle aux grains, 1 Place Dupuy, 31000 Toulouse, France Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev, born in 1988, studied in Nizhny-Novgorod with the veteran Margarita...

Wigmore Soloists play Schubert’s Octet [Wigmore Hall livestream]

Jan 8, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Friday, January 8, 2021 Wigmore Hall, London For a delightful sixty-five minutes – balm to the ears and stimulation to the senses – this debut recital by Wigmore Soloists brought Schubert’s six-movement Octet (D803) to the World. Playing to an audience-free Wigmore...