Sunday, 13 May 2018

Review of BBC Philharmonic concert conducted by Ben Gernon with soloist Stefan Dohr

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Another BBC Phil concert, another new concerto: this time the UK premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Horn concerto – written for its soloist, Ste...
Monday, 23 April 2018

Review of BBC Philharmonic concert conducted by Clemens Schuldt with soloist Leonard Elschenbroich

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The world premiere of a cello concerto is a pretty rare event, and interesting, for one thing, just because there aren’t many of them ar...
Friday, 13 April 2018

Review of Halle concert with Nicholas Collon, conductor, and Boris Giltburg, soloist

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The combined talents of Nicholas Collon as conductor and Boris Giltburg as soloist made their shared concert one of the outstanding even...
Thursday, 22 March 2018

Review of Halle concert with Jonathon Heyward, conductor, and Benjamin Grosvenor, soloist

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This week’s Hallé ‘Opus One’ set of concerts is notable not just on account of the soloists (Benjamin Grosvenor for Beethoven’s Piano co...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

Review of Halle Valentine's Day concert

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The Hallé’s Pop concerts master-minded and conducted by Stephen Bell are well established, and none more so than the Valentine’s Day speci...
Friday, 9 February 2018

Review of Halle concert with Ryan Wigglesworth

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There’s nothing like a concert mainly on the theme of death to brighten a cold, wet February evening in Manchester. But principal guest c...
Saturday, 9 December 2017

CDs of my year: a personal selection

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Here’s a personal set of CD reviews for Christmas – maybe these could help solve your present problems … Wagner: Parsifal (soloists, Hall...
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