Saturday, 23 February 2019

Review of Peter Donohoe and Noriko Ogawa two-pianos recital at Bridgewater Hall

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Unusually in the Bridgewater Hall’s International Series, this was a two-piano recital. Not a crowd-puller maybe, but since it was by tw...
Saturday, 2 February 2019

Review of St Petersburg Philharmonic, Bridgewater Hall

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St Petersburg Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky, Freddy Kempf, Bridgewater Hall Vassily Sinaisky (left) and Freddy Kempf The ...
Saturday, 22 December 2018

The best performances of 2018

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So what were the stand-out performances of 2018 in Manchester and the North West? Here’s a personal selection. Buxton Festival provi...
Wednesday, 12 December 2018

My best CDs of 2018

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Still looking for a Christmas present for the music lover in your life? Here are a few CD recordings that came my way this year and which ...
Thursday, 29 November 2018

Review of English Touring Opera's St Matthew Passion at the Stoller Hall

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It’s a truism to say that the St Matthew Passion is the opera Bach never wrote. But it’s still a work designed for a liturgical setting (‘...
Thursday, 22 November 2018

Review of the The Manchester Peace Song Cycle at the RNCM

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‘These Days – The Manchester Peace Song Cycle’, to give it its full name – was a staged song cycle about Heaton Hall and particularly its ...
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Monday, 19 November 2018

Review of Manchester Collective's Pierrot Lunaire at the RNCM

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On paper, the big attraction of Manchester Collective’s concert at the Royal Northern College of Music on Friday was a chance to hear the ...
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