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MITR – Consone Quartet, Mendelssohn. St Matthew’s, Carver St, Sheffield. 26/10/24

Mendelssohn:    String Quartet in E flat (1823);  Scherzo from Four Pieces Op.81;  String Quartet in E minor Op.44 No.2   plus to follow Mendelssohn Roundtable, with Consone Quartet & Laura Tunbridge The blurb of the Consone Quartet’s web site says that they are the ‘first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New GenerationContinue reading “MITR – Consone Quartet, Mendelssohn. St Matthew’s, Carver St, Sheffield. 26/10/24”

Beethoven, Fidelio. ROHCG. 16/10/24

Director, Tobias Kratzer; Designer, Rainer Sellmaier; Lighting designer, Michael Bauer; Video designer, Manuel Braun. Conductor, Alexander Soddy. Cast – Leonore, Jennifer Davis; Florestan, Eric Cutler; Rocco, Peter Rose; Marzelline, Christina Gansch; Jaquino, Michael Gibson; Don Pizarro, Jochen Schmeckenbecher; Don Fernando, Phillip Rhodes I saw this production on BBC TV during lockdown – it had beenContinue reading “Beethoven, Fidelio. ROHCG. 16/10/24”

Halle Orchestra, Wong – Britten and Mahler: Bridgewater Hall, 26/9/24

Britten The Prince of the Pagodas: Suite arranged by Colin Matthews and Kahchun Wong; Mahler Symphony No 1 ‘Titan’; Kahchun Wong conductor, Halle Orchestra Kahchun Wong is Singaporean, aged 38 and has been chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic, and now the Halle, as well as being principal guest conductor ofContinue reading “Halle Orchestra, Wong – Britten and Mahler: Bridgewater Hall, 26/9/24”