Showing posts with label Richard Strauss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Strauss. Show all posts
Thursday, February 21, 2019

In which all paths lead to Beethoven 7

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I've been reading an interesting book, which I'm reviewing for BBC Music Magazine. It's Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to D...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

The day after the day before

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Jonas Kaufmann, Jochen Rieder, BBCSO. Photo: Mark Allen/Barbican It's possibly some measure of my current distraction - with libret...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Michael Volle: How to keep your head in opera

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Even if his characters sometimes lose their heads, the powerhouse German baritone Michael Volle has no intention of imitating them. You&...
Friday, August 25, 2017

A steamy date in Snape

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Spent most of yesterday driving to and from Aldeburgh with the OH to experience a very special night of Strauss and Elgar at the Snape Proms...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Soprano flying high under the planes

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Lise Davidsen as the Prima Donna, Nicholas Folwell as the Major Domo Glyndebourne's Ariadne auf Naxos , directed by Katharina Thoma...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Magic mountains 2: Into the woods, with the Strausses

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A double-bass player walks to work in the Taiswald I started to go to Pontresina with my parents at the age of 12, more years ago than...
Monday, September 01, 2014

September: some gigs and a song

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Hello, it's September. How did that happen?! Here are a few things I'm doing this month: do come along if you're in the vicini...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Strauss's big birthday

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It's the big 150th anniversary today, so here is a little something to celebrate, with pics from my visit to Garmisch in 2012. First,...