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Gerald Fenech recommends a Naxos recording of orchestral music by Florence Beatrice Price. 'John Jeter and his Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen provide truly splendid performances, vibrant and often pulsating, and superbly balanced.'
2022-03-29 09:58:14
A programme of Bach's concertos and cello suite from Il Gusto Barocco gives us a distant echo of Bach's concerts at Cafe Zimmerman
Bach Suite & Concertos; Il Gusto Barocco, Jörg Halubek; Berlin Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 29 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Vividly engaged playing in a programme which attempts to take us to Bach's Cafe ZimmermanHaving released a recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos last year [see my review], Jörg Halubek and Il Gusto Barocco continue their Bach journey on Berlin Classics with a disc that combines the Cello Suite No. 3 with the Violin Concerto in A minor, Harpsichord Concerto in D major, Concerto for Two Harpsichords and Concerto for two Violins, with soloists Leila Schayegh (violin), Jörg Halubek (harpsichord), Alexander Gergelyfi (harpsichord), and Anais Chen (violin), plus cellist Jonathan Pesek. The programme is constructed in an intriguing manner, the movements of the Cello Suite are spread throughout the disc punctuating and linking the programme. The ethos behind this programming is a desire to […]
2021-07-30 14:07:31
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Furtwängler’s Ticket To Ride
The fine musicians of Reutlingen do their level best to get us through Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1st symphony.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-11-19 10:27:42
Music director quits Germany ‘for Covid reasons’
The US conductor Fawzi Haimor has resigned from the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen with immediate effect. Haimor, 37, had been music director for three years, and was signed on until 2024. Last summer, his wife gave birth to a son. A WPR orchestra manager said, ‘we understand that in these pandemic-plagued times he sees the center […]
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