Monday, 9 July 2018

BREAKING NEWS? Oliver Knussen has died ?

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Unconfirmed news just in, without corroboration, that Oliver Knussen is no longer with us. A shock, as he was awarded another honorary d...
Friday, 6 July 2018

Vindicated ! Herheim Glyndebourne Pelléas et Mélisande - screw the Golauds!

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Christina Gansch, Christopher Purves, John Chest : Photo Richard Hubert Smith At Glyndebourne for Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande , ...
Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Véronique Gens Wigmore Hall, Gounod, Massenet, Duparc, Hahn, Offenbach

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Véronique Gens is a much-loved regular at the Wigmore Hall, generally focusing there on Mélodie and Chanson, despite her formidable repu...

East meets West - LSO St Luke's Friday

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Eclectic recital this Friday (6/7) - East meets West with LSO String Ensemble at Jerwood Hall, St Lukes.  Raymond Yiu's  And Ni...
Monday, 2 July 2018

Bye-Bye Berlin - classy Weimar with true jazz feel

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Weimar Berlin has been evoked in music, film and literature so often that it takes real originality to recreate the Zeitgeist with fresh ...
Friday, 29 June 2018

Schoenberg Gurrelieder : Salonen Philharmonia, Royal Festival Hall

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Schoenberg Gurrelieder at the Royal Festival Hall, with Esa-Pekka Salonen, demonstrating how well the Philharmonia Orchestra has abso...
Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Dangerous Liaisons - Dance and Music - OAE Lully Rameau

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Dangerous Liaisions with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.   Joined by  Les Corps Éloquents (Hubert...
Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Happy Birthday, Claudio Abbado, 85

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Happy Birthday, Claudio Abbado, who would have been 85 today - still young, still productive, still blazing new trails.  To celebrate, I...
Sunday, 24 June 2018

Rattle's Valediction : farewell as Chief in Berlin (listening link)

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Simon Rattle's farewell concert as chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker livestreamed Thursday,  now audio-only on Deutschl...
Friday, 22 June 2018

Music in motion - Port-o-Sound Cart

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 How to get grease all over your LP's.
Thursday, 21 June 2018

Seven Little Fooks

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Seven Little Fooks (七小福)  a reference to folklore tales about seven kids who bring good luck.  In this case, a group of boys being train...
Monday, 18 June 2018

Haunted Arabia - W Denis Browne

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W. Denis Browne (1888-1915),  as a schoolboy at Greyfriars, Leamington Spa.  This photo might sum him up better than the usual photos of ...
Sunday, 17 June 2018

Hommage à Gounod 200th birthday

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Today marks the 200th birthday of Charles Gounod celebrated in Paris last night by Palazzetto Bru Zane. Look HERE at the programme ! an...
Thursday, 14 June 2018

Magical Ravel Ma mère l'Oye. Le Tombeau de Couperin - FX Roth Les Siècles

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François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles Ravel Ma mère l'Oye, coupled with Le Tombeau de Couperin with Shéhérazade between them, lat...

Buddha behind Barbed Wire

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