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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

    Puccini “Madama Butterfly”, Royal Opera House

    By Edward / 30/06/2011

    One can only hope that the ill wind which strips away the cherry blossom at the close of Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s feeble 2003 production of Madama Butterfly might soon carry off the entire staging. I’ve…

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    Muhly/Lucas “Two Boys”, English National Opera

    By Edward / 25/06/2011

    The most surprising thing about Two Boys is the consonance and quiet sensuality of the score. Many words spring to mind: elegiac, mournful, poetic, melismatic – a digital age score without digitalisms, without electronics, actual or simulated,…

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  • Reviews

    Britten “Peter Grimes”, Royal Opera House

    By Edward / 22/06/2011

    Willy Decker’s 1994 production of Britten’s Peter Grimes has not worn well and pales now in the shadow of David Alden award-winning staging down the road at English National Opera. That, too, is due for revival. Decker’s…

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  • Reviews

    London Symphony Orchestra, Pires, Haitink, Barbican Hall

    By Edward / 15/06/2011

    Her appearances in this country are rare enough as it is so to discover that Maria Joao Pires was to be a late substitute (for the indisposed Murray Perahia) was precious consolation indeed. She played Mozart’s last…

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  • Reviews

    Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim, Boulez, Royal Festival Hall

    By Edward / 14/06/2011

    Liszt and Wagner, Boulez and Barenboim – iconic names, analogous kinships. As conductors and musical soulmates both Boulez and Barenboim have boldly sought and found satisfying answers to the Wagner myth but who, one wonders, could have…

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    Mascagni “L’amico Fritz”, Opera Holland Park

    By Edward / 11/06/2011

    It’s all a little unlikely: Protestants and Jews in rural Alsace, Yiddish melodies given a distinctly Italianate spin, the longest and most infuriating foreplay in opera, and not one single death. I’m not sure when there was…

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  • Reviews

    Verdi “Simon Boccanegra”, English National Opera

    By Edward / 09/06/2011

    It doesn’t take long to establish that there is an extraordinary director at work here. The body language, the tangible involvement of every character on stage, the way in which emotional journeys are charted and feelings expressed…

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  • Reviews

    Bernstein “Candide”, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Kristjan Jarvi, Barbican Hall

    By Edward / 06/06/2011

    Leonard Bernstein’s most bountiful score – a mouth-watering confection of sugar and spice and all things nice – is also a masterpiece of parody and counter-parody. Voltaire’s Candide was short and pithy; Bernstein and his legion of…

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  • Reviews

    Mozart “The Magic Flute”, Garsington Opera at Wormsley

    By Edward / 03/06/2011

    The sun really smiled on the opening of Garsington Opera’s handsome new summer pavilion at the Getty’s Wormsley estate – but in doing so it rather turned Mozart’s Magic Flute on its head flooding light and enlightenment…

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  • Podcasts

    A Conversation With JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER

    By shane / 02/06/2011

            http://media.blubrry.com/seckerson/p/www.edwardseckerson.biz/media/podcasts/Edward-Seckerson-Julian-Lloyd-Webber.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download… [Read More]

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