Articles...
Sep 20 2008
LAURA Davis looks at a new book which reveals the melancholy and fun of musical genius Thomas Beecham...
May 19 2008
AT FIRST glance, it seemed a rather intense collection of excerpts from some of the great operas that the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel had chosen for his first collaboration with the Liverpool Phil’s bright new conductor Vasily Petrenko....
May 16 2008
COMPOSERS have often been obsessed with colour. Scriabin, particularly, invented a colour keyboard to attempt to relate notes and keys to particular colours. ...
May 13 2008
THERE will be more new commissions in the new season of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic season, just announced....
May 12 2008
IT MUST have been something of an emotional homecoming for Keith Pascoe, who brought the Cork Symphony Orchestra to perform at Philharmonic Hall this weekend....
Apr 24 2008
ONE of the big selling points was that they had never performed, previously, in Liverpool....
Apr 21 2008
IT’S A brave soul who brings together the forces of several choral societies in the hope that they will all, to use an awful modern cliché, sing off the same hymn sheet....
Apr 21 2008
LIVERPOOL’S Echo Arena put aside any worries about the electricity bill when the Classical Spectacular came to the city this weekend....
Apr 18 2008
IT WAS certainly not a performance for the faint-hearted. George Benjamin’s music is always intense, condensed and bursting with an understated energy....
Apr 7 2008
IN MANY ways, this was a voyage of discovery. It was, for many, an exploration of unknown works. It was a trip around sacred, celestial sounds which - in themselves - constituted a voyage into uncharted territory....
