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The Classical Source publishes its reviews of #classical concerts, #opera #ballet #musicals #recordings & #interviews. Tweets by the Classicalsource team classicalsource.com UK Joined August 2011
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#News #BBCProms Friday 19 July to Saturday 14 September 2024 90 Proms: 73 at the Royal Albert Hall and 17 at venues across the UK bit.ly/3UxTqmZ

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#ConcertReview @TOMvenue #opera John Frederick Lampe’s opera The Dragon of Wantley (1737) is based on a Yorkshire legend about a ferocious dragon who terrorises the area of Wharncliffe Crags that was made better known in a ballad. The opera served not on classicalsource.com/concert/new-su…

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#ConcertReview In these revelatory performances from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir András Schiff, no one could possibly doubt his passion for Mendelssohn who Hans von Bulow once waspishly declared “began life as a genius and ended a classicalsource.com/concert/a-love…

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2 weeks ago

#opera George, the title character of Zemlinsky’s third opera (composed between 1903 and 1907, but not premiered until long after his death in 1980) is usually taken, in his eponymous dreaming and obsession with fairy tales, to be a figure susceptible to classicalsource.com/concert/oper-f…

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2 weeks ago

#CDReview Through their work with the Hungaraton, Decca and Hyperion labels the Takács Quartet are very much associated with the core repertoire, so this release featuring five contemporary composers, bandoneón (a classicalsource.com/cd/takacs-assa…

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2 weeks ago

#opera @ETOpera @OxfordPlayhouse Alongside considerable colour and exuberance, Jude Christian's production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut for English Touring Opera poignantly, even sardonically, contrasts  the life of luxury which the eponymous character cou classicalsource.com/concert/englis…

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2 weeks ago

#opera @ETOpera @OxfordPlayhouse Although The Rake’s Progress is ultimately a moral fable, Polly Graham’s production doesn’t take it with too much po-faced seriousness. Rather it plays up its mordant humour by presenting it as like acabaret, with a quirk classicalsource.com/concert/englis…

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2 weeks ago

#ConcertReview @carnegiehall @nezetseguin @philorch In a program showcasing music by the Mahlers, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in the former’s Seventh Symphony, preceded by four elusive songs by his wife (née Alma Schindler) in ski classicalsource.com/concert/philad…

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2 weeks ago

#ConcertReview @southbankcentre Edward Gardner fashioned a clear-sighted account of the Tippett, controlling the first movement’s gnarly energy and gentle sonorities with ease and allowed a natural unfolding of the music’s tension and release. classicalsource.com/concert/lpo-ed…

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3 weeks ago

#ConcertReview @LHandelFestival #Handel #opera On first glance, the three Psalm settings are probably better known to those familiar with Handel's choral music as titles among the eleven Chandos Anthems, which he wrote when working for the Duke of Chan classicalsource.com/concert/london…

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3 weeks ago

#ConcertReview #opera The Italian Girl in London (1778) is one of the earlier operas by the prolific older contemporary of Mozart, Cimarosa. Although termed an intermezzo, as a comedy essentially it follows the same conventions of an opera buffa, and is classicalsource.com/concert/oper-f…

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3 weeks ago

#ConcertReview @NewTheatreOx Many remember the name, in English, of Mozart and Da Ponte's third operatic collaboration as 'Women are like that', with more than a whiff of apparent misogyny in it (the ending of the Italian tutte definitely denotes that classicalsource.com/concert/welsh-…

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3 weeks ago

#ConcertReview @NewTheatreOx Thomas Mann's literary art is noted for the various potent dichotomies which it frequently poses for consideration – between youth and maturity, growth and decay, thought and action, form and idea; and most importantly, subsu classicalsource.com/concert/welsh-…

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a month ago

#OperaReview The Royal Opera – Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer ...The unequivocal musical success is the ROH Chorus, especially the men as the sailors, who provide the real vigour and rough-hewn vim that this seabound work requires.  bit.ly/4a8UXoK

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a month ago

#CDReview @londonsymphony @SirSimonRattle Káťa Kabanová - Rattle with the LSO Simon O’Neill uses plenty of dynamic variation and is suitably impassioned as Boris, if rather more Wagnerian than the fresh-voiced 25 year old Petr Dvorský. bit.ly/3VwSZKA

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a month ago

#ConcertReview @carnegiehall Back in Carnegie Hall since its 2003 concert with Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestre de Paris, with current Music Director Klaus Mäkelä, performed two of Igor Stravinsky’s most popular scores. classicalsource.com/concert/orches…

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2 months ago

#ConcertReview @RoyalOperaHouse Many people know the story of the human curiosity or ‘freak of nature’ Joseph Merrick, if only because of John Hurt’s depiction of him in the film The Elephant Man (memorably using Barber’s Adagio). Perhaps not much less r classicalsource.com/concert/the-ro…

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2 months ago

#ConcertReview @daniil_trifonov @KravisCenter This was the second of four Florida concerts on the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s U.S. tour. With chief conductor Lahav Shani the curtain-raiser was Arvo Pärt’s Swansong, based on an earlier piece that he composed classicalsource.com/concert/rotter…

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2 months ago

#ConcertReview @carnegiehall Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s high profile appointments as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Philadelphia Orchestra have tended to eclipse his much longer partnership with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, w classicalsource.com/concert/orches…

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2 months ago

#ConcertReview #Paris #Opera Peter Sellars came to wide public attention – at least outside of his native America – through his involvement with John Adams's Death of Klinghofer, about terrorism in the Middle East, and particularly in the United Kingdom classicalsource.com/concert/opera-…

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