A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO
After seven fulfilling years at the helm of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko has extended his contract, his tenure, his commitment, as he puts it, “to eternity”. Another decade in Liverpool is guaranteed taking him…
A Conversation With IAN STOREY
In 2007 the English tenor, Ian Storey, made a dramatic and highly visible debut as Tristan in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the season opening of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by Patrice Chereau. It…
A Conversation With JAN VOGLER: Dresden Music Festival 2013
The 36th Dresden Music Festival has a big title and even bigger ambitions – EMPIRE – a theme which Artistic Director Jan Vogler hopes will embrace not just the cultural achievements of the British Empire but the…
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Petrenko, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool (Review)
With the news that Vasily Petrenko had extended his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra “to eternity” (his words) the little bit of Russia that came to the soon to be refurbished Philharmonic…
A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO: RLPO Shostakovich Symphonies
Vasily Petrenko’s highly acclaimed cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra reaches an important chapter in what Petrenko himself calls a “biopic” of the composer’s life and times. The 7th Symphony “Leningrad” chronicles…
Benjamin/Crimp “Written On Skin”, Royal Opera House (Review)
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s Written On Skin arrives at the Royal House for its UK premiere trailing extraordinary plaudits from all who’ve seen it. One can understand why. Music theatre is such a delicate, precarious, business…
A Conversation With MICHAEL BERKLEY: Launch of the Nash Ensemble’s American Series
Saturday 9th November 2013, Wigmore Hall Bechstein Room 6.00pm Conversation with MICHAEL BERKELEY to launch the Nash Ensemble’s American Series… [Read More]
Mitsuko Uchida, Royal Festival Hall (Review)
The magic usually descends quickly in a Mitsuko Uchida recital but the opening Bach of this rescheduled Festival Hall concert – a pair of Preludes and Fugues from Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Klavier – took a…
A Conversation About The AMERICAN MUSICAL: The Rest Is Noise
Royal Festival Hall, Sunday 24 March 2013 12.30-1.30. In conversation about the American Musical in the first half of the 20th Century as part of “The Rest is Noise” series.… [Read More]
A Conversation With BETTY BUCKLEY: ‘Dear World’
The place is the elegant One Aldwych hotel and in a suite kindly provided by the management Broadway star Betty Buckley is in post workout mode chatting to Edward Seckerson about her return to the London stage…