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2024-02-27 09:59:00
Classical music must not cease from exploration
Today is a poignant personal anniversary, so I have been listening to Valentin Silvestrov's Stille Lieder (Silent Songs) in the 1986 ECM recording. This morning that performance by baritone and Sergej Jakowenko accompanied by Ilja Scheps was, for me, the most sublimely appropriate masterpiece. But that is because of the personal conditions relating to today. Tomorrow, depending on the conditions, a Sibelius symphony, a Mozart string quartet, Iiro Rantala's jazz improvisations, or Steve Roach's electronica will be sublimely appropriate. Masterpieces, like every human condition, are impermanent. They come and go, and return and return - Silvestrov's Stille Lieder first featured here back in 2008, many years before the Ukrainian tragedy gave their composer his 30 minutes of fame. (Newcomers to Silvestrov's music should know that Stille Lieder are the root from which his better known masterpieces, the Fifth Symphony and Requiem for Larissa grew.) For decades classical music has been trying, without success, […]
2023-10-30 07:17:00
Two Cities: Ned Rorem in Paris & New York - centenary celebrations at London Song Festival
[…] Chevalier - opera reviewLong may they continue! Kronos Quartet's celebratory 50th anniversary concert at the Barbican - concert reviewA little bit crazy yet done with verve, imagination and style: The Masque of Might, David Pountney's Purcellian masque at Opera North - opera reviewWhat's not to love? Glamour and heart as Puccini's little swallow returns to Opera North - opera reviewPastoral charm with an engaging sense of style: Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno from the English Concert at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewTo the North... Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja creates a recital that is highly satisfying in itself, but with each work repaying further attention - record reviewHome
2023-10-28 07:22:00
Exploring his musical roots: conductor Duncan Ward chats about his jazz-inspired, Eastern European & French music coming up with the London Symphony Orchestra
[…] Chevalier - opera reviewLong may they continue! Kronos Quartet's celebratory 50th anniversary concert at the Barbican - concert reviewA little bit crazy yet done with verve, imagination and style: The Masque of Might, David Pountney's Purcellian masque at Opera North - opera reviewWhat's not to love? Glamour and heart as Puccini's little swallow returns to Opera North - opera reviewPastoral charm with an engaging sense of style: Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno from the English Concert at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewTo the North... Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja creates a recital that is highly satisfying in itself, but with each work repaying further attention - record reviewIn glorious voice: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to Wigmore Hall for a programme of art songs by Grieg, Berg, Schubert and Sibelius - concert reviewHome
2023-10-27 07:36:00
Piatti Quartet launches its Rush Hour Lates at Kings Place with Dvorak and Schubert
[…] Chevalier - opera reviewLong may they continue! Kronos Quartet's celebratory 50th anniversary concert at the Barbican - concert reviewA little bit crazy yet done with verve, imagination and style: The Masque of Might, David Pountney's Purcellian masque at Opera North - opera reviewWhat's not to love? Glamour and heart as Puccini's little swallow returns to Opera North - opera reviewPastoral charm with an engaging sense of style: Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno from the English Concert at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewTo the North... Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja creates a recital that is highly satisfying in itself, but with each work repaying further attention - record reviewIn glorious voice: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to Wigmore Hall for a programme of art songs by Grieg, Berg, Schubert and Sibelius - concert reviewInspired by the Sea: composer Ed Bennett on the ideas behind Strange Waves, his large-scale immersive work eight-part multitracked cello & field recordings - interviewHome
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