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Catching up (Part 3)
April 2020 to December 2020 In which the Tourist condenses down 2020, in and out of lockdown, mostly watching stuff on a screen. Don’t worry he also took walks, saw punters when permitted and growled at the state of his disappointing nation, but it is only now he is back…
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Joanna MacGregor at the Wigmore Hall review ****
Joanna MacGregor (piano) Wigmore Hall, 11th November 2019 Birds, Grounds, Chaconnes Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) – Le rappel des oiseaux François Couperin (1668-1733) – Les fauvétes plaintives Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) – Le merle noir Jean-Philippe Rameau – La poule Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) – On an Overgrown Path X. The barn owl…
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King Arthur by Henry Purcell at the Cadogan Hall review ***
London Concert Choir, Counterpoint, Mark Forkgen (conductor), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Bethany Partridge (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Way (tenor), Peter Willcock (baritone) Cadogan Hall, 7th November 2019 Henry Purcell – King Arthur Early afternoon spent in the company of Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’s Joker before an…
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English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall review *****
English Chamber Orchestra, Jessica Cottis (conductor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ben Goldscheider (horn) Cadogan Hall, 16th March 2019 Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31 Purcell/Britten – Suite of Six Songs from Orpheus Britannicus Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite I love Britten’s Serenade, first…
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English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire review ****
English Touring Opera Hackney Empire, 12th October 2018 Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Carissimi – Jonas Gesualdo – I Will Not Speak I am partial to English Touring Opera’s productions. The repertoire tends to be up my street, with a bias to smaller, chamber and Baroque works, reflecting resources and…
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Britten Sinfonia at Milton Court review *****
Britten Sinfonia, Helen Grime This is Rattle, Milton Court Hall, 20th September 2017 Purcell – Fantasia Upon One Note Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Colin Matthews – A Purcell Garland Helen Grime – Into the Faded Air Oliver Knussen – Cantata Helen Grime – A Cold Spring Thomas Ades – Court…
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