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  • GRAMOPHONE Review: Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel

Popular Podcasts

  • A Conversation With LIISA RANDALU: Schumann Quartet release 2nd CD
  • A Conversation With DAME JANET BAKER
  • ENCOUNTERS: Edward Seckerson talks to Broadway composer LUCY SIMON
  • A Conversation With VICTORIA WOOD: New TV drama, ‘Loving Miss Hatto’
  • A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO: RLPO Shostakovich Symphonies
  • Edward Seckerson talks to RENÉE FLEMING about The Light in the Piazza
  • A Conversation With JOHN RUTTER
  • A Conversation With DAVID McVICAR & SARAH CONNOLLY: Charpentier’s ‘Medea’
  • A Conversation With JULIAN OVENDEN
  • A Conversation With SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope
  • Reviews

    Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel, Royal Opera House

    By Edward / 24/12/2010

    The moment of truth in any staging of Hansel and Gretel must be the Dream Pantomime which closes act one. This is the director’s moment, the moment where the entire premise of the production finds fulfillment in…

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    LSO, Mullova, Gardiner, Barbican Hall

    By Edward / 22/12/2010

    The tricky opening chord of Weber’s Der Freischutz Overture needed warming up – didn’t we all – but a quartet of horns quickly lent a dappled glow to the proceedings and the mercury began to rise. Weber’s…

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    London Philharmonic Orchestra, Saraste, Royal Festival Hall

    By Edward / 16/12/2010

    In a programme note for the premiere of his 2nd Violin Concerto in 1943 Bohuslav Martinu wrote of the eternal tension between “absolute music” and music with an expressive purpose. But times and attitudes change and his…

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  • Reviews

    Philharmonia Orchestra, Capucon, Norrington, Royal Festival Hall

    By Edward / 15/12/2010

    These days Sir Roger Norrington tends to stop, look, and listen rather than get stuck in; it’s almost as if it is someone else’s performance and not his own that he is enjoying. While the hive of…

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  • Reviews

    Wagner “Tannhäuser”, Royal Opera House

    By Edward / 12/12/2010

    To ravish the senses or feed the soul? That is the question. And although Wagner posed it knowing full well that its significance would resonate through the ages – and no more so than now – he…

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  • Asides

    Let’s hear it for Hammerstein

    By Edward / 10/12/2010

    Leicester’s handsome Curve Theatre is surely unique in allowing its audience a pre-performance glimpse of the “innards” of each production. As we the audience stroll freely around the circular public walkway the backstage areas are exposed to…

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  • Reviews

    Philharmonia Orchestra, Nelsons, Royal Festival Hall

    By Edward / 08/12/2010

    The heroics came fast and fervently with Andris Nelsons and the Philharmonia Orchestra emerging from suffocating pianissimi to rip out the exultant fanfares of Beethoven’s Leonora No.3 Overture as if already limbering up to take on Strauss’…

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  • Asides,  Reviews

    Where do I begin?

    By Edward / 07/12/2010

    It’s an in-joke that composer Howard Goodall could hardly pass by – quoting that song in his and Stephen Clark’s musical adaptation of the much-loved novel and film LOVE STORY. But it’s the moment he chooses that…

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  • Reviews

    LSO, Alsop, Barbican Hall

    By Edward / 06/12/2010

    It was extraordinary but not especially surprising how Gustav Mahler’s presence could loom so large in a concert containing not one single note of his music. His pointless “retouching” of the Beethoven symphonies and wholesale repression of…

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  • Reviews

    LPO, Jurowski, Royal Festival Hall

    By Edward / 02/12/2010

    Vladimir Jurowski must have had a sixth sense about this programme beginning as it did with Debussy’s Prelude Des Pas sur la neige (“Foosteps in the Snow”) and ending with the sound of sleigh bells ushering in…

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