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Simon Trpceski on a new path

Posted on February 2, 2018February 4, 2018 by Michael Church
Simon Trpceski and friends, Wigmore Hall, 21.1.18   We are accustomed to thinking of Simon Trpceski as a superlative pianist with a hotline to Beethoven, Brahms and the most rebarbative music of ... Read More

London recitals: Montero, Trifonov, Gavric, Olafsson, Jacobson

Posted on February 2, 2018February 4, 2018 by Michael Church
  Wigmore Hall: Gabriela Montero, Nov 14; Daniil Trifonov, Dec 7u; Ivana Gavric, Dec 28 St John’s Smith Square: Vikingur Olafsson, Nov 15; Julian Jacobson, Nov 26 It’s not keyboard artistry w... Read More

The heroism of Angela Hewitt

Posted on February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 by Michael Church
Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall, 26.1.18 There’s something heroic about Angela Hewitt’s Bach. This Canadian pianist has made Bach’s keyboard music the core of her performing life, twice taking it on... Read More

Glass’s Satyagraha

Posted on February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 by Michael Church
Satyagraha, ENO, 1.1.18   ‘Masterpiece’ – like ‘great’, ‘iconic’, and ‘legendary’ – is a word which should be used sparingly by critics, if at all. But it is absolutel... Read More

The spirit of Kodo

Posted on February 2, 2018February 2, 2018 by Michael Church
Drum children    There’s a felicitous double meaning in Kodo, the name of the celebrated Japanese drumming ensemble. Its written characters mean ‘drum child’, but an infinitesimally different... Read More

Ferschtman and Rabinovich… Schiff…Perenyi…

Posted on December 31, 2017January 6, 2018 by Michael Church
Liza Ferschtman/Roman Rabinovich, Wigmore Hall, 30.12.17   Roman Rabinovich – credit Balazs Borocz When a work is described as ‘uncommonly difficult for all concerned’, as Gerald Larner... Read More

The LSO Metamorphosen…

Posted on December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 by Michael Church
Simon O’Neill/Christian Gerhaher/London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle: Barbican, 13.12.17   The last major work composed by Richard Strauss, and also by a mile the most beautiful, Metamorphos... Read More

En passant: Celebrating Charpentier…Daniil Trifonov’s Achilles heel… the wonderful Arts Florissants…

Posted on December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 by Michael Church
Early Opera Company,Wigmore Hall, 8.12.17   Everyone knows the overture to Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum, though few have heard of that seventeenth-century French composer. After being pre... Read More

Michieletto’s superb Cav and Pag

Posted on December 3, 2017December 4, 2017 by Michael Church
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Royal Opera House, 2.12.17 Damiano Michieletto’s production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci looks like becoming one of Covent... Read More

Semiramide at Covent Garden

Posted on November 23, 2017November 23, 2017 by Michael Church
Semiramide, Royal Opera House, 22.11.17   Rossini’s Semiramide premiered in Venice in 1823, and throughout the nineteenth century it was a popular vehicle for great voices, but in the twentieth... Read More
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