IT WAS quite obvious to all those in Philharmonic Hall that the combination of pianist Stephen Hough, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Ilyich Rivas and Rachmaninov would be explosive.Read
YOU could tell there was something rather special on at the Phil. A string of coaches parked up, people listening to the concert from seats on the platform and the BBC back to broadcast the concert live on Radio 3 – particularly welcome as they keep coming back on a regular basis.Read
CONDUCTOR John Wilson has had great success with his concerts of Hollywood and Broadway musicals, but this concert of British film music with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was rather different. His eclectic selection concentrated largely on incidental music – only a handful of great themes – and varied from 1940s dramas to Carry On Up the Khyber.Read
THE passion of Christ has kept composers busy from distant mists of time to the present. But, while there are numerous settings, it is the two great Bach works which are, arguably, the most famous.Read
JUST a few years ago, labelling a concert “Dream Team” might have been something of a risk. But few can have predicted the immense success generated by the partnership of Vasily Petrenko and Simon Trpceski, most significantly in their universally acclaimed recordings.Read
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