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Month: September 2016

En passant… a King’s Head pocket Boheme…Angela Hewitt’s Bach Odyssey…Sellars’ Stravinsky…Anna Bonitatibus…ETO’s Xerxes, La Calisto, and Il ritorno d’Ulisse…Levit v Williams…

Posted on September 22, 2016June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
When Dan Crawford established the King’s Head Theatre in 1970, it seemed the sort of venture which might burn brightly for a year or two, then fizzle out like other bright ideas from the Sixties: to... Read More

A fusion at Darbar 2016…And one at the Club Inégales…

Posted on September 17, 2016June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
Ever since Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar made their ground-breaking record East Meets West during London’s first flush of enthusiasm for the sounds of Rajasthan, musicians on both sides of the cla... Read More

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

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