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Orpheus Complex: Music is Power
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Friday, 13 February 2015. 8221; Gergiev, Pollini, Dudamel and the entire El Sistema are the predictable targets, but Rattle gets a poke too; apparently he’s New Labour. Thompson has his axes to grind of course, but he undermines every argument he makes by equating the politics he dislikes with poor musicianship. The famously communist Pollini, we are told, “. Rattle’s time in Berlin has been a success by almost every avai...
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Orpheus Complex: April 2015
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Sunday, 26 April 2015. Saffron Hall: A Musical Miracle in North Essex. It has taken me a year and a half to make a visit the new concert hall in Saffron Walden, but now I wish I’d gone sooner. What a venue! Saffron Hall’s story is well-known: It is in the grounds of a state school and was funded through a single contribution of £10m, from an anonymous donor though a local charity, The Yellow Car Charitable Trust. Jessica Duchen...
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Orpheus Complex: Marsyas Trio Elena Firsova CD Launch
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Thursday, 28 May 2015. Marsyas Trio Elena Firsova CD Launch. As a launch event, the Trio gave a recital on 6 May. This turned out to be just a few weeks after Firsova’s 65. Four of Firsova’s works were included in the concert. Night Songs. Op 125, is a sombre setting of Osip Mandelstam, a poet whose work permeates Firsova’s music. Lost Vision. An excellent evening all round, and the ideal way to launch the Marsyas Trio’s ...
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Orpheus Complex: April 2014
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Monday, 28 April 2014. Mahler 7, LSO, Gatti, Barbican 27 April 2014. Mahler: Symphony No. 7. London Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (cond). Barbican, London, 27 April 2014. And the scherzo third movement was presented as playful and delicate, so as to bring it in line with the Nachtmusik. Atmosphere of its neighbours. Links to this post. Monday, 21 April 2014. Time to End the Proms Embargo? Links to this post. Lars Vogt (pian...
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Orpheus Complex: December 2013
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Friday, 20 December 2013. Platinum Consort OAE Christmas Oratorio Kings Place 19 December 2013. Bach: Christmas Oratorio: Parts I, III, V, VI. Platinum Consort, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Scott Inglis-Kidger, cond. Kings Place, London 19 December 2013. In a season dominated by Messiah. S, spare a thought for the Christmas Oratorio. Links to this post. Thursday, 19 December 2013. Bach: Well tempered clavier book II.
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Orpheus Complex: July 2014
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Wednesday, 30 July 2014. Dark Times for UK-Russian Cultural Relations. The 2014 UK-Russia Year of Culture. Has its work cut out. Events in the two countries are intended to bring their peoples together through a celebration of their respective contemporary cultures. But now, understandably, the British government has cut it loose and no officials will be participating from now on. Even before the current standoff, British attit...
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Orpheus Complex: November 2014
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Monday, 24 November 2014. Alfred Schnittke at 80. Many performers of Schnittke’s generation continue to champion his music. Their recorded legacy is also formidable. Almost all of Schnittke’s major works have extensive discographies, and in many cases the benchmark recording is the first, with the dedicatees providing versions that have yet to be surpassed. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Orpheus Complex: May 2015
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Thoughts on classical music in London, on the web and beyond. By Gavin Dixon. Thursday, 28 May 2015. Marsyas Trio Elena Firsova CD Launch. As a launch event, the Trio gave a recital on 6 May. This turned out to be just a few weeks after Firsova’s 65. Four of Firsova’s works were included in the concert. Night Songs. Op 125, is a sombre setting of Osip Mandelstam, a poet whose work permeates Firsova’s music. Lost Vision. An excellent evening all round, and the ideal way to launch the Marsyas Trio’s ...
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Classical Music UK
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William Steinway's diary goes online, documenting 36 years of the piano company's history. The diary has been put online of William Steinway, one of the most important members of the Steinway family, who ran the piano company for most of the second half of the 19. The Steinway factory in Queens employed a large workforce, and William was determined to develop the area for the benefit of his workers. The diary documents the building of housing, an amusement park and a school. The conductor Yakov...
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