Showing posts with label classical music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical music. Show all posts
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Helsinki Philharmonic under Saraste play a Sibelius programme

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  Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic orchestra in a program devoted to the music of Sibelius. Now a Finnish conductor w...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Shunta Morimoto plays in Denia, 7 November 2024, 8pm, Teatro Centro Social

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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, January 8, 2024

Fumiaki Miura, Josep vicent and ADDA Simfonica in Ravel and Shostakovich

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This was a concert of two halves, both superb, both contrasted, both within and between. Shostakovich in the first half and Ravel in the sec...
Monday, November 13, 2023

Orchestra of the Royal Capital City of Krakow under Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak in ADDA Alicante

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Surprises come when least expected. On entering the ADDA auditorium, it was at least a shock to see so little of the stage occupied. So used...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Surprise, surprise – Bergmann and Baldeyrou play Sibelius, Weber and Franck in ADDA, Alicante

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Surprise, surprise might seem an incongruous title for the review of a concert which seemed to offer a-middle-of-the-road programme. Sibeliu...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

ADDA hosts Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations in Elements and Furies

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Sometimes a program does not seem attractive. Since I generally prefer more modern sounds, particularly contemporary music, a program that l...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Folk song, dance and ritual - ADDA Simfonica with Ramon Tebar and Juan Perez Floristan

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  In another loosely themed concert, ADDA Simfonica played four works written in the forty years that spanned the dawn of the twentieth cent...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Vienna surprise – Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler Chamber orchestra play Mozart and Schoenberg in Alicante

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  After hearing Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Alicante’s ADDA concert hall, I was sufficiently surprised by what I had ...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Conrado Moya plays marimba and Shostakovich 10 brings the house down in Alicante

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  A piano concerto played in a transcription for marimba is not a common event. It is even rarer when it is the Concierto Heroico of Joaquin...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Josep Vicent, Julia Gallego perform Dvorak, Joan Albert Amargos and Holst's The Planets

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  Dvorak’s Carnival Overture provides a stunning opening to any concert. It ’ s exuberant, tuneful, spectacular and exciting. It ’ s all the...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky in Alicante's ADDA

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  Two concerts on consecutive days might be considered by some as a live event to far, especially when the concerts feature big, autobiograp...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

Saariaho's La Passion de Simone

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It's a comment both on current availability and prevailing mentality that I choose to write a piece about a television experience, albei...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update – Orquesta de Valencia under Trigueros and guitarists in Alicante

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Two concerts in five days might sound quite a lot, but we achieved that by skipping the others on offer. But could one imagine two more diff...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

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  Tastes change. Fashions change. Presumptions, through whose refracting pris ms each new age interprets its aesthetics, also change, but u...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Jurowski and Kavakos with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin at ADDA Alicante

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There is nothing standard about performance, nothing predictable about experience, unless, of course, it is drained of all communication by ...