Nov 27, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
I’m not sure if I have heard Prince Rostislav before. If I have it failed to make an impression. From Leonard Slatkin and the St Louis Symphony the music’s brooding and atmospheric plotting presents a tangibly dramatic course of action. The ill-fated (when...
Nov 25, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
In a word, Spiffing. Two more words, Enjoyable and Enlightening. Stylish on Signum Classics SIGCD737. https://signumrecords.com/product/a-most-marvellous-party/SIGCD737/
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...
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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 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 30, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Having recorded Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Nine Symphonies for Onyx, Andrew Manze and the Liverpool Philharmonic turn to another VW masterpiece, Job: A Masque for Dancing. It’s a fine traversal: thoughtful, sympathetic, atmospheric, fiery, dramatic,...
