Showing posts with label alicante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alicante. Show all posts
Saturday, May 18, 2024

ADDA Simfonica with Irene Theorin under Josep Vicent in Strauss and Shostakovich

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  Concerts seasons often parade a procession of “great works” calculated to promote ticket sales. Anything less well known is often regarded...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

A dream of a concert: Tomas Brauner and Senja Rummukainen join ADDA Simfonica in Smetana, Prokofiev and Martinu

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“Such stuff as dreams are made on, we are all spirits and are melted into air” are words that ought to remind us of the ephemeral, temporal ...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

The Philharmonia with Suzuki and Queyras in Schumann and Dvorak - another case of "no superlatives"

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Some time ago, for a review of the concert in Alicante’s ADDA auditorium, I used the headline “No superlatives”. I chose the words not becau...
Monday, April 22, 2024

ADDA Simfonica and Trio Vibrart in Beethoven

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Again the program looked familiar. The only thing that appeared not to be predictable was the playing. And on that score, the ADDA orchestra...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonia under Paavo Järvi with Maria Dueñas in Schubert and Bruch

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When you have been to a lot of concerts - when you reach a certain age! - real surprises are quite rare. Even new works fall into expected g...
Monday, April 8, 2024

The Gonzalo Soriano International Piano Competition in Alicante announces its winners

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  For the second time, Caroline and I have completed an edition of the Concurso Internacional de Piano de la Ciudad de Alicante Gonzalo Sori...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

ADDA Simfonica in Bernstein and Mahler with Josep Vicent and Josu de Solaun

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Some concerts are different from the norm. Some turn out to be different, some look different from the start. Last Friday in ADDA, Aliante, ...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra with Andris Poga and Behzod Abduraimov in Matre, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky

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Orchestras on tour often take some of their home repertoire with them. In the case of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under the direction o...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

St John Passion in ADDA Alicante with Ruben Jais and Coro Labarocco de Milano

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It is at least forty years since I heard a concert performance of a Bach Passion. It is probably a decade since I heard a complete performan...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve in Alicante with Sandra Fernandez and Miguel Ortega

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La Vida Breve by Manuel de Falla is a problematic work. Its problem stems mainly from the fact that it is an opera that lasts just over an ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Something special - Pablo González, Francesco Piemontesi and the Dresden Philharmonic in Beethoven and Strauss

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Something special was experienced by the ADDA audience last night. On the face of it, the concert was almost conventional, as concerts somet...
Monday, January 15, 2024

The Hallé Ochestra, Kachung Wong and Liza Ferschtman in Brahms and Shostakovich in Alicante

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  The Hallé Orchestra has a very long history and tradition. Part of its tradition is to develop long and lasting relationships with its pri...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Gustavo Gimeno and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in Sibelius and Mahler

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Gustavo Gimeno conducted the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in the latest concert of ADDA’s Pasions season. The program juxtaposed two...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Josep Vicent conducts Beethoven and Montsalvatge in Alicante

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  Beethoven ’ s Ninth Symphony is one of those works I can hear anytime I want. I play it to myself in my head - at least, I think I do. It ...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Pimchas Zukerman plays Elgar with Orchestra National de Lyon under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider in ADDA Alicante

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When writing reviews, the pressure to express opinion often leads to overstatement. It is a position. I usually try to avoid, and I do so by...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Jesús Reina, Pierre Bleuse and ADDA Alicante in Ravel, Strauss and Mozart

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For the third time this season, Alicante ’ s ADDA audience heard a major piece by Richard Strauss. The Violin Concerto is an early work, wri...