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...
Oct 27, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, October 20, 2023 University Concert Hall, Limerick, Ireland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga South African-born, London-based keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout has triggered some mixed reviews for his fortepiano Beethoven cycle with Pablo Heras-Casado and the...