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Month: October 2016

En passant: Phantasm…ROH Rosenkavalier…Trevor Pinnock…Cuarteto Casals…ROH Traviata…Miller’s Rigoletto…Ekaterina Semenchuk

Posted on October 25, 2016March 29, 2018 by Michael Church
  Why should the sound of a consort of four viols be more moving than that of a string quartet? It goes against all logic. With its flat back, and played like a Middle-Eastern spike-fiddle, the v... Read More

Steven Isserlis rampant

Posted on October 20, 2016March 21, 2017 by Michael Church
Should we know the story behind the creation of a piece of music, or should we let it speak for itself? The British cellist Steven Isserlis poses this question in the liner note to a CD he has just re... Read More

IPM recital round-up No 39: the poetry of Llyr Williams, the heroism of Nick van Bloss, plus Igor Levit, Angela Hewitt, Jeremy Denk, and Geoffrey Saba

Posted on October 18, 2016October 20, 2016 by Michael Church
The Wigmore Hall is running two Beethoven sonata cycles in tandem, at different speeds: while Igor Levit gets stuck into his cycle, Llyr Williams continues his in a more leisurely arc. And since in Oc... Read More

In praise of Semyon Bychkov

Posted on October 10, 2016October 18, 2016 by Michael Church
When Semyon Bychkov raises his baton at the start of his Tchaikovsky series at London’s Barbican next week [Oct 19], the hall will be packed, as will New York’s Lincoln Center when he repeats the ... Read More

Parissa and Meshk at the Barbican’s Transcender festival

Posted on October 6, 2016October 18, 2016 by Michael Church
Words are of limited usefulness in evoking music, but we critics aren’t usually lost for them, so it came as a surprise to find, the morning after the Meshk Ensemble’s performance at the Barbicanâ... Read More

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