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Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Monday, 25 August 2025

I’ve got to think of my future…

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The wait will soon be over… Twenty two years ago, a truly talented wise man — one of a trio, fortuitously — recommended a record, “an LP”...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

I’m definitely amazed…!

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I picked up the book in the image — a book I had been anticipating for weeks — and was crying by page 2: recognizing elements of both mys...
Thursday, 13 March 2025

Listen to the waves against the rocks…

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It was the top of page 212 that unlocked the floodgates I had been blinking back all day: For people who are in continual pain, the rela...
Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Let slip the dog afar…

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I posted the following on Instagram late last night: Any human being that can write such a sentence as that below – especially in the con...
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

A designer who was also an engraver…

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I hope, dear reader, that you may be one of my descendants, but I have only three children, my grandfather had six and as I write a Germa...
Thursday, 1 February 2018

I knew our music would allure him…

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Sometime during last weekend, I came downstairs to find The Good Lady Bard transfixed by a recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on Cl...
Thursday, 18 January 2018

Look, Ma! No wires…!

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I know it’s a little late in the month for an epiphany ; but – despite its tardiness in not only time, and some other dimensions – Tuesda...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Anniversary (a)musings…

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Just a little set of amuse-bouches – of hastily-scribbled, reasonably relevant, limericks… – to celebrate four years of blogging! (Photo ...
Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Beethoven – from page to stage (and beyond…)

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Introduction As the title of this post indicates, it chronicles a journey through and around one piece of living, breathing music – in th...
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Thursday, 13 July 2017

That band who so vauntingly swore…

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I wrote (almost exactly twenty-four hours ago – although the two days cushioning this period have somehow become concatenated; or even coal...
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Tuesday, 11 July 2017

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream…

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The first thing that would have struck you on entering Stratford ArtsHouse, last night , was that there were a lot more chairs laid out fo...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

In equal scale weighing delight…

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Sometimes, rehearsals are even (or certainly seem, at the time, to be) more exciting than the actual subsequent concert : especially when ...
Saturday, 3 June 2017

Aqui está encerrada el alma de .....

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Yesterday was Elgar’s 160th birthday ; and I was in need of a big dose of some of the big man’s big music. Fortunately (despite my friend ...
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Sunday, 21 May 2017

Asking a shadow to dance…

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Whatever you may think, or whatever others may tell you, being a classical music critic is an immensely tough gig – one that I have only t...
Sunday, 30 April 2017

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave…

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You have to have a lot of faith in an orchestra to open proceedings with something as challenging as Copland’s Appalachian Spring suite. Th...
Friday, 14 April 2017

Once More, with Feeling…!

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Before you is something of a duality: firstly, it is one of the greatest chamber orchestras in existence; secondly, it is a group of twenty-...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

There is no passion to be found playing small…

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Two tantalizing prospects lured me to last night’s concert… – that of seeing and hearing the Orchestra of the Swan with a change of conducto...
Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine…

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Before I commence this review, a plea (or two). Firstly, that we never forget that Holst was a truly great composer; nor that 1934 was a de...
Sunday, 12 March 2017

Now is the night one blue dew…

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As Louisa May Alcott once said – or words to that effect – you should never meet your heroes; although, mostly, I have found her adage to b...
Thursday, 23 February 2017

This serious moonlight…

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This review is dedicated to Paolo Pezzangora – without whom there would be much less musical magic in the world. Whoever writes the Orches...