Articles...
Nov 26 2007
IF MENDELSSOHN had chosen to write operas, Elijah would have been a highly successful debut composition....
Nov 23 2007
IT REALLY was a quite extra-ordinary occasion. Many of us will remember sitting in a rather sparsely- populated Philharmonic Hall a decade ago after the main concert had taken place and the crowds had cleared....
Nov 22 2007
ANYTHING with the words “world premiere” normally has most people reaching for their tin hats, heading for the trenches or simply simmering at home in stony silence....
Nov 19 2007
IT TAKES courage to perform Verdi’s Requiem. For a start, it’s a well-known work, so any imperfections will be spotted by the audience....
Nov 16 2007
THE Sound of Music is made for us this week not by the Trapp family but the Kapp family, father Artur, son Eugen and his nephew Willem. They are Estonian composers whose music is brought to our attention by Neema Jarvi and the BBC Philharmonic....
Oct 15 2007
THEY must have been popular. Advance publicity for the first night of the Chester Celebrity Concerts talked about the “much-acclaimed” concert in March, 2006, given by the Fujita Piano Trio, three highly-talented Japanese sisters....
Oct 12 2007
SINCE the masterpieces of Benjamin Britten 50 years and more ago, there has been little new opera to enter the repertoire....
Oct 4 2007
YOU can always count on Ensemble 10/10 to do something innovative, exciting and out of the ordinary....
Sep 7 2007
THE everyday story of family folk is hardly a suitable description of The Wagner Clan, a new book by Jonathan Carr on Richard Wagner and his many descendants....
