Monday 12 April 2021

From Macau through China, India and Burma: Hong Kong Portuguse in the Chindits. By Anne Ozorio

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A few y years ago, Anne Ozorio,who died last August, gave me a typwscript copy of an article she had written on the experiences, after the 1...
Monday 14 December 2020

Review of Grange Park Opera’s production of Owen Wingrave. By Claire Seymour

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In 1954, the year in which Benjamin  Britten completed  The Turn of the Screw , he wrote to Eric Walter White that he had just read another ...
Sunday 18 October 2020

Harawi 12 years on

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Gweneth Ann Rand sings Messiaen’s song cycle Harawi, with Simon Lepper, piano, at Wigmore Hall this evening at 7.30 UK time. A free live vid...
Thursday 8 October 2020

She had a lot to teach me – Remembering Anne Ozorio, Number 2

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  Music critic CLAIRE SEYMOUR  (Opera Today) recollects the phenomenal knowledge, writing skills and generous advice of  Anne Ozorio, who wo...
Thursday 3 September 2020

Mr Wu and Beano — Remembering Anne Ozorio, Number 1

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Anne Ozorio and her brother Joe at the Ozorio family mausoleum in Happy Valley, Hong Kong Anne Ozori told me abou Mr Wu as we waited for a B...
Thursday 27 August 2020

Anne Ozorio 8 October 1951--22 August 2020

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Anne Ozorio  (right)  with soprano Sarah Minns in 2011  (photo: Roger Thomas) Sadly, the owner of this blog, Anne Ozorio, died on 22 A...
Wednesday 15 July 2020

Secrets of the Sahara - Le Désert and L'Atlantide

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Secrets of the Sahara !  Two magnificent evocations of the Sahara and its seductive mysteries : Félicien David's Le Désert (1844...
Saturday 11 July 2020

Two Pastorals : Beethoven Symphony no 6, Knecht Le portrait musical de la Nature

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Two pastorals : Beethoven's Symphony no 6 "Pastoral" op 68 and Justin Heinrich Knecht Le Portrait musical de la Nature , w...
Friday 3 July 2020

Freiburger Barockorchester, Heras-Casado : Beethoven Choral Fantasy and Symphony no 9

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Beethoven Symphony no 9 "Choral" in D minor, Op. 125, and the Choral Fantasy   in C minor op 80 with soloist K ristian Bezuide...
Monday 29 June 2020

Glyndebourne magic at home - Ravel L'enfant et les sortilèges

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L'enfant et les sortilèges - Teapot (François Piolino) Child (Khatouna Gadelia) Chinese Cup (Elodie Méchain) Credit Simon Annand  G...