Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, April 28, 2023

Pinchas Zuckerman with the Sinfonia Varsovia in Penderecki, Schubert and Beethoven – a real delicacy

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The word “delicacy” can mean many things. It can signify refinement in a personality, something good to eat, or describe something too fragi...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Direction of travel - Copland, Bartok and Bernstein in ADDA, Alicante

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It is rare for a concert program to hang together as a unit both musically and intellectually. But the latest program from the ADDA orchestr...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Óscar Esplá – music in context

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Some artists seem to be inextricably linked to places. Henry Moore’s legacy is in Leeds, where he studied, but was not born. Barbara Hepwort...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Fumiaki Miura plays Mendelssohn and Mozart with ADDA, Alicante - undertstated perfection

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  “Less is more” is an expression that I have often heard when I have proffered criticisms of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Usually ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Claus Peter Flor and Milan Symphony and Chorus in Verdi's Requiem, ADDA, Alicante

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A performance of Verdi’s Requiem is more like a visit to an awe-inspiring monument than the experience of a piece of music. It’s a work that...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Julia Fischer and Academy Of St Martin In The Fields at ADDA, Alicante

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There are times when words fail, and this is one of those occasions. Feel free to read no further, because what follows cannot be described ...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Das Lied von der Erde in ADDA Alicante and a mention for a bass trombone concerto

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This was a more than merely memorable concert, ending with the Valse Triste of Sibelius as an appropriate encore. “Appropriate” is an import...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Through the emotions – Soler, Valero and Gandía at ADDA in Alicante

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Gala Lirica, Opera Gala or merely Song Medley often labels an admixture of showcase snippets, offered, it seems, primarily to advertise a vo...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Alicante enthuses over Joshua Bell, Alan Gilbert and NDR Elbphilharmonie in Bruch and Bruckner

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  It looked like a middle-of-the-road program of Romantic staples. Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony were both written...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Costa Blanca Art Update - Alicante's ADDA Symphony Orchestra begins a new season

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A new season of orchestral concerts in Alicante’s ADDA opened with a blast, rather than a bang. The blast in question came at the end of the...
Monday, March 1, 2021

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...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Twelve years of Alfas del Pi Classical Music Society - alfasmusica.com

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  «Nuestro público es el fiel reflejo de lo que es la sociedad alfasina» Tras doce años de existencia la asociación ha organizado ya más de ...