Debussy
MacMillan premiere, Repin, LSO, Gergiev, Barbican HallThursday, 13 May 2010
"There is not one idea," wrote that intemperate critic Eduard Hanslick about Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, "that does not get its neck broken by the speed with which the next lands on its head." Rather a compliment, I've always thought, and... Read more... |
Classical Music CDs Round-Up 4Friday, 15 January 2010
Heading up this month's classical selection is a 16-CD budget box set of the complete works of Frédéric Chopin, issued to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the consumptive Pole's birth. Plus we review a rare piano concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams... Read more... |
Gergiev, LSO, BarbicanMonday, 21 September 2009Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Valery Gergiev shimmying his way through Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe. There he was, London’s loosest-limbed maestro, back on the Barbican podium (just about) with the London Symphony Orchestra, after a summer... Read more... |
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