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REVIEWS OF LIVE EVENTS - 2008
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2008
OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE
Five:15 (Scottish Opera at Riverside Studio)
CONCERTS
Boulez & Stravinsky; Barenboim & Chéreau (Prom 39)
Dudamel & Gottenburg S O at The Proms
Stockhausen at The Proms
JUNE & JULY 2008
OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE
Monteverdi Poppea (Glyndebourne at the Proms)
Tchaikovsky - Iolanta (Opera Holland Park)
Stravinsky Pulcinella (OHP)
Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore (Anghiari Festival)
Ponchielli – La Gioconda (Opera Holland Park)
Daugherty – Jackie O (Bologna)
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress (Lepage version at Royal Opera House, London)
Kyriakides An Ocean of Rain (Almeida Theatre)
Puccini – Tosca (Opera Holland Park)
Mozart – The Magic Flute (Opera Holland Park)
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress (Trinity College Opera Company, London)
Gounod – La colombe & Rossini – L’occasione fa il ladro
Donizetti La Fille du regiment (Opera Holland Park)
VERDI – Il trovatore (Opera Holland Park)
Handel - Orlando (Independent Opera)
CONCERTS
Li-Chun Su (pianist and fortepianist)
PROMS 2008:
First Night
Messiaen – Le Transfiguration
Stockhausen
Monteverdi Poppea
Ravel – Hillborg - Berlioz Ravel (Gottenburg Symphony Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel)
New Irish Music (Fidelio Trio)
Arriaga, Reicha, Spohr etc (Kreutzer Quartet & Stephanie Beck, harp)
Anna Leese (Wigmore Hall recital)
Cello recitals at Goldsmiths College (Alexander Ivashkin & Anzél Gerber - both with Alekzander Szram)
EXAUDI – From Taverner to Ferneyhough at Spitalfields Festival 2008
Brahms/Nex, Ligeti & Reger/Schönberg (Aurora Orchestra/Conlon/Rolf Hind)
Greig & Finnissy (Kreutzers at Wiltons)
APRIL & MAY 2008
OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE
Puccini La bohème (Budapest)
Szirmai Mágnás Miska (Budapest)
Handel – Rodrigo (Lufthanza Baroque Festival)
Birtwistle Punch and Judy (ENO At The Young Vic)
Birtwistle The Minotaur (Royal Opera House)
Lehar The Merry Widow (ENO)
Cavalli Il Calisto (Royal Academy Opera)
CONCERTS
Denisov, Gubaidulina & Schnittke (Goldsmiths College PureGold Festival)
Beethoven, Clement & Mozart (Beethoven Explored at Wiltons)
Nono Prometeo
Flute recital at St John's Smith Square (Boustany & Szram)
Beethoven String Quartets cycle (Wihan Quartet at Blackheath)
Schubert Impromptus & Moments Musicaux (András Schiff)
Fauré, Chopin & Prokofiev ( Philharmonia Orchestra/Sokhiev)
Bartók, Pintscher & Schönberg (LSO/Boulez)
Ives, Bartok, Steptoe etc (The Kreutzers at Wilton's)
Alinka Kozári (recital in Kaposvár)
Bax, Bridge & York Bowen (The Bridge Duo; lunchtime recital)
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Chopin (Jill Crossland piano)
Clark, Dennehy, Parker, Reich, Stockhausen, Xenakis (New Noise - Cross Talk)
Ferrier Competition finals [Ben Johnson, Alexander Robin Baker, Ida Falk Winland, Ida Falk Winland, Derek Welton, Adrian Ward (Elizabeth Donovan)]
PLG Monday Platform (Rautio Piano Trio; Katie Stillman & Simon Lane)
Ronald Stevenson at 80
German and English contemporary composers
(Uroboros Ensemble)
Standing room only at the Warehouse - -
Handel - Messiah (Solomon Choir & Orchestra)
Brazil 1 & 2 (Lontano & Clelia Iruzun)
Chopin & Enescu (Luiza Borac)
FEBRUARY & MARCH
OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE
Offenbach La Vie Parisienne (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Shostakovich – Paradise Moscow (Royal Academy Opera)
Henri Oguike Dance Company with Orquestra do Algarve
Grabu, Blow & Purcell (Linden Baroque)
Britten Peter Grimes & Dove Pinocchio (Opera North at Sadlers Wells)
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor (ENO at The Coliseum)
Puccini – La Boheme (Garden Opera at Blackheath Halls)
Dowland IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL (Transition Opera)
CONCERTS
Gruberova at Wigmore Hall
Messiaen at Wilton's
Beethoven Explored Vols. 3 & 4
Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder & Orchestral Music (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra)
Emerson Quartet with Gilbert Kalish
Mozart Piano Concertos (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Robert Levin)
Barenboim Beethoven Sonatas (2)
Barenboim Beethoven Sonata Cycle
Richard Goode piano recital
Arman Trio 10th Anniversary Concert (Castelnuovo-Tedesco etc)
Trpceski & Montero to Ferneyhough
Fujikura, Anderson, Taylor & Montague (Trinity College of Music Contemporary Music Group)
JANUARY 2008
CONCERTS
Eva Podles with Garrick Ohlsson (Wigmore Hall recital)
David Matthews (Kreutzer Quartet at Wilton's Music Hall)
Haydn, Bartok & Schumann (Zehetmair Quartet)
A Sunday of Chamber Music and Song in London (Blackheath Halls and Wigmore Hall)
Royal Academy students in song and opera
Poulenc, Britten and Shostakovich Songs (Christopher Maltman)
Royal Academy students in song and opera
Judith Weir - The Vanishing Bridegroom and Woman.Life.Song (BBC at The Barbican and on Radio3)
Schubert Lieder (Röschmann / Bostridge / Quastoff Trio)
Haydn & Joseph, Bedford & Mozart (St Paul’s Sinfonia)
Purcell & Blow (Early Opera Company)
Schumann & Prokofiev (Mikhail Shilyaev, piano)
Mahler : Symphony No 4 (LSO/Gergiev)
Schumann, Butterworth & Poulenc (Simon Keenlyside)
PARK LANE GROUP YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES 2008:-
Arnold & Lachenmann Quartets (Harpham String Quartet, PLGYA)
Berio, Cutler & Maconchy (Barbirolli String Quartet, PLGYA)
PLGYA (Jan 7, 9 & 10)
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
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