Showing posts with label classcial music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classcial music. Show all posts
Friday, November 8, 2024

Shunta Morimoto at the Denia International Piano Festival in Bach, Chopin and Liszt

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  I don ’ t normally write detailed reviews of chamber music concerts. It ’ s not because they often aren’t memorable, it ’ s just that I te...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Mahler Seven by the Tonhalle Zurich under Paavo Jarvi in ADDA Alicante

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A concert program that devotes 77 minutes to a single work is not commonly encountered. Yes, there are the symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Paquito D'Rivera and Aaron Copland under Jost Vicent in Adda, Alicante

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Apparently, this was a program of two halves. Meaningless phrases are always the best openings… On the face of it, the first half of this co...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

ADDA Alicante under Josep Vicent begin a new season with Bruckner's Seventh Symphony

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  Anton Bruckner was born in 1824, meaning this year is his bicentenary. In recognition of this, the new season of Alicante concerts opened ...
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 ...
Friday, March 1, 2024

The Desconstruction of Mahler: ADDA under Josep Vicent with Patrick Messina in Adams, Brahms and Berio

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This was a very special concert. It will live in the memory for as long as breath continues. It was nothing less than a triumph of artistic ...
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, 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...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Memorable? You bet! Joe Alessi plays Chick Corea’s trombone Concerto at ADDA, Alicante

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The word memorable is much overused. It now tends to signify something that is rather bland, an experience unworthy of being labelled “world...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Stefanie Irany, Josep Vicent and ADDA orchestra in Strauss, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky

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Programa Richard Strauss, Muerte y Transfiguración Op.24 23:00 Hector Berlioz, La muerte de Cleopatra 22:00   I.  C’en est donc fait! 03...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

We got rhythm – Josep Vicent and the ADDA orchestra in Ravel, Adams and Reveueltas

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Concert programs nowadays are often themed. Sometimes the idea is obvious, sometimes trite, but even attempting to present such a program is...