JDCMB
Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog. Music and writing in London, UK.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Reflections on the Bieito 'Fidelio'
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A fascinating business, this: coming back from that very Beethoveny trip to Bonn and landing bang in the middle of Calixto Bieito's prod...
Friday, September 27, 2013
Beethovenfest Bonn 2: Ludwig Lives!
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Bonn is roughly the size of Cardiff in terms of population (about 350,000). Yet the musical riches within this pleasant and manageabl...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
TOMORROW: 'Hungarian Dances' goes to Bournemouth
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Our very old friend Jack Maguire was for many years co-leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, is now musician-in-residence for the B...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Beethovenfest Bonn 1: The Death of Schumann
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Yesterday I stood in the room where Schumann died. It's a little room on the top floor, at the end of a long, old building in En...
Saturday, September 21, 2013
JD meets... CALIXTO BIEITO
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In which the Bad Boy of Opera turns out to be a pussycat. I went to see him to preview his Fidelio , which opens at ENO this week . Some of ...
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