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2024-04-03 14:17:00
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Shortly after it was released I bought the young Finn Klaus Mäkelä's new complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies recorded for Decca. Sibelius symphonies are very well represented in my large CD collection, in fact I have more Sibelius symphony cycles than for any other composer. Yet I have returned to Mäkelä's interpretations a surprising number of times. No, they will not replace the accounts of Sanderling, Colin Davis, Barbirolli, and others. But they are not worse or better: because subjective dualist judgements of better or worse, like or dislike, good and bad, definitive or otherwise, etc etc no longer mean anything to me. There is no concrete reality in a music performance, only what we individually perceive as reality. A performance is an endless flow of constantly changing conditions. The score is not the performance, and the performance is not the score. Between score and performance lie an infinite number of overlapping […]
2024-02-03 08:50:00
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TV
[…] Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden - opera reviewWhat happens when a conductor best known for his operatic work, conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah: Sir Antonio Pappano & the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican with Gerald Finley - concert reviewAwash with musical history: Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots at Oper Leipzig, Shostakovich celebrated by Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig Music Trail, Mendelssohn Haus, Bach Archiv & more - featureHomePlanet Hugill at Le Piano Symphonique 2024From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - interviewA winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival - interviewHomage to Liszt: pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on astonishing form in Liszt and Brett Dean - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 2: From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality and intelligence - concert reviewLiszt […]
2024-02-02 10:19:00
As chilling and emotional as ever: Kate Lindsey returns as Offred in ENO's strong revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale
[…] homesickness: Raymond Yiu's new violin concerto inspired by the experiences of Chinese violinist and composer, Ma Sicong - featureBack with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden - opera reviewWhat happens when a conductor best known for his operatic work, conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah: Sir Antonio Pappano & the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican with Gerald Finley - concert reviewPlanet Hugill at Le Piano Symphonique 2024From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - interviewA winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival - interviewHomage to Liszt: pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on astonishing form in Liszt and Brett Dean - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 2: From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality and intelligence - concert reviewLiszt […]
2024-02-02 08:18:00
A vivid panorama of Freya Waley-Cohen's compositional interests & techniques: Manchester Collective in Spell Book at the Barbican
[…] homesickness: Raymond Yiu's new violin concerto inspired by the experiences of Chinese violinist and composer, Ma Sicong - featureBack with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden - opera reviewWhat happens when a conductor best known for his operatic work, conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah: Sir Antonio Pappano & the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican with Gerald Finley - concert reviewPlanet Hugill at Le Piano Symphonique 2024From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - interviewA winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival - interviewHomage to Liszt: pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on astonishing form in Liszt and Brett Dean - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 2: From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist Oliver Schnyder combine musicality and intelligence - concert reviewLiszt […]
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