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Bach, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, South Bank Centre 9/5/26

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, BWV.870-893 It is a bit of a shock to the system – auditory, mental, emotional – to sit down and listen to two and a quarter-ish hours of Bach piano music, 48 separate pieces, which are without any sort of narrative or clear structure (unlike theContinue reading “Bach, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, South Bank Centre 9/5/26”

Wozzeck, Berg: LPO, Gardner, Royal Festival Hall, 25/4/26

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner conductor; Stéphane Degout, Wozzeck; Annette Dasch, Marie; Peter Hoare, Captain; Brindley Sherrat, Doctor; Christopher Ventris, Drum Major; Eirik Grøtvedt, Andres; Kitty Whately, Margret; Adrian Thompson, The Fool. London Voices Comments come to mind about London buses…. but I booked this a year ago, long before I knew about the ViennaContinue reading “Wozzeck, Berg: LPO, Gardner, Royal Festival Hall, 25/4/26”