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Prom 71 – Trifonov’s mistaken approach to Mozart

Posted on September 8, 2016March 21, 2017 by Michael Church
Twenty-five-year-old Daniil Trifonov, currently basking in mega-stardom, may not be the best of the young pianists to have recently emerged from the former Soviet bloc – the Uzbek Behzod Abdurai... Read More

Nick van Bloss – and how he harnessed his Tourette’s syndrome

Posted on September 7, 2016June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
In 2011 I published the profile below of the pianist Nick van Bloss in ‘The Independent on Sunday’, at a time when he was taking tentative steps towards a renewed concert and recording ca... Read More

PCM 8 Cadogan; Prom 69 Barenboim – 2016

Posted on September 6, 2016September 6, 2016 by Michael Church
Soprano Carolyn Sampson, counter-tenor Iestyn Davies, and pianist Joseph Middleton gave a lunchtime Prom at the Cadogan Hall which was chamber music of the highest quality. The first half consisted of... Read More

Proms 67 and 68: Bolivars and Semiramide – 2016

Posted on September 5, 2016September 9, 2016 by Michael Church
Every time Gustavo Dudamel brings his Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra to London, they get a bit better: once a spirited youth orchestra, they are now grown up, and in technical terms approaching inte... Read More

Prom 63 – Bach’s Mass in B minor 2016

Posted on September 5, 2016June 11, 2018 by Michael Church
Bach’s Mass in B minor towers above all other choral works, and it can survive splendidly intact even with blemishes in performance; so it was with this one by Les Arts Florissants under the directi... Read More

Prom in the Multi-Storey Car-park, Peckham 2106

Posted on September 5, 2016September 5, 2016 by Michael Church
This would be a Prom like no other, we were told at the outset. And indeed it was, thanks to its unconventional auditorium: the low-ceilinged top floor of a multi-storey car-park in downtown Peckham, ... Read More

Prom 46, 2016

Posted on August 24, 2016August 27, 2016 by Michael Church
Ilan Volkov has grown steadily in stature as a conductor during his years in Scotland, but his direction of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Gerard Grisey’s Dérives was simply masterly. ‘Sp... Read More

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Glyndebourne, 2016

Posted on August 24, 2016June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
Peter Hall’s theatrical and operatic legacy is vast, but one of the productions at the heart of it is his A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which opened to universal plaudits in 1981. He and his creative... Read More

Brahms at Verbier: notes for a Deutsche Grammophon CD

Posted on August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 by Michael Church
Fresh from his exertions with his Requiem, Brahms nonchalantly dismissed his first set of Liebeslieder-Waltzer in a letter to his publisher as ‘trifles’, though he was also pretty confident of the... Read More

Youth orchestras in the Middle East, 2016

Posted on August 24, 2016August 26, 2016 by Michael Church
Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO), created in 1999, is by no means the only youth orchestra to have emerged from the cauldron of the Middle East. Four years later in Ramallah, t... Read More
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