Jan 31, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Photo, Chris Lee Saturday, January 28, 2023 Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Yuja Wang has built a career on stunning displays of virtuosity. But tackling all five of Rachmaninoff’s works for piano-and-orchestra during...
Jan 28, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Screenshot from broadcast (Beethoven) Friday, January 27, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra, Opus 31 – first heard in December 1928 with this orchestra conducted by Furtwängler, with a...
Jan 27, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Friday, January 27, 2023 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland This webcast – sporting first-class sound and picture throughout – concluded with Rachmaninov’s First Symphony (1897/1945), David Robertson and the Finnish...
Jan 27, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Sunday, January 22, 2023 All Saints’ Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Heading to London last Sunday for Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion premiere, I stopped by in Cambridge for a quick afternoon diversion. A backwater sanctuary, off the...
Jan 25, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Photo, London Philharmonic Orchestra Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Southbank Centre, London – Royal Festival Hall The concert opened with the century-plus belated London premiere of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s ‘lost and found’ Solemn Prelude (Opus...
Jan 24, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Photo, London Philharmonic Orchestra Sunday, January 22, 2023 [Chinese New Year] Southbank Centre, London – Royal Festival Hall Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga “Music is like the angels of the human race.” Premiered by the Munich Philharmonic in Dresden in May 2018,...