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London Symphony Orchestra/ Adams, Barbican Hall, London

The intimations of both Ravel and Stravinsky in Colin Matthews’ opulent orchestrations of Debussy’s gusty Preludes “The Wind in the Plain” and “What the West Wind Saw” made for a quite ...

 

Yesterday   -  The Independant - Reviews

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Fischer, Royal Festival Hall, London

It’s one small step for Beethoven and a giant leap for mankind from the First to his Eighth Symphony and to hear both works in tandem on instruments of the period only intensifies the revolution drawing us ever closer to ...

 

March 10   -  The Independant - Reviews

Rattle/St Matthew Passion, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Rattle's Bach" is how the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra publicised its St. Matthew Passion at the weekend. It could as easily have been "Rattle's Passion", given the spontaneity and cumulative emotional power ...

 

March 08   -  The Independant - Reviews

Maurizio Pollini: Chopin Birthday Recital, Royal Festival Hall, London

One composer; two bicentenaries: Chopin's birthday is disputed. Some anoraks favour 22 February, others insist on 1 March, so the Royal Festival Hall marked both. Maurizio Pollini's capacity-crowded ...

 

March 07   -  The Independant - Reviews

Emilie, Opéra National de Lyon, Lyon, France

Written for Karita Mattila and premiered in Lyon, the solo-voice opera Emilie opens with the fevered scratch of a pen.

 

March 07   -  The Independant - Reviews

Album: Lotti / Zelenka / Bach, Thomas Hengelbrock, (Deutshe HM)

Two famous settings of the Crucifixus haunt this disc from Thomas Hengelbrock's Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble.

 

March 07   -  The Independant - Reviews

Album: Chopin, Journal Intime – Alexandre Tharaud (Virgin Classics)

All the rage in literary circles, the "personal history" has only lately caught on in classical music.

 

March 06   -  The Independant - Reviews

Handel, Tamerlano, Royal Opera House, London

Whether or not Placido Domingo’s presence would have lifted the dynamics of this decidedly flaccid evening one cannot say. It’s hard to imagine him amidst the dispassionate chic of Richard Hudson’s whiter ...

 

March 05   -  The Independant - Reviews

Knight Crew, Glyndebourne

With wounded soldiers shipped in to Covent Garden by the egregious Joanna Lumley, and the idiocies of ‘Popstar to Operastar’ giving way to Kiri Te Kanawa’s X-Factor search for talent on Radio 2, ...

 

March 05   -  The Independant - Reviews

Album: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Gershwin (Decca)

The reputation of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue has been transformed in recent years as, starting with Michael Tilson Thomas in the 1970s, arrangers have rediscovered its jazz origins beneath decades of orchestral polish. Working ...

 

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