Philharmonia Orchestra / Mackerras / Alfred Brendel - Royal Festival Hall, 12 October 2008 On Tuesday Alfred Brendel leaves England via the majestic portal of Basingstoke to commence the final leg of his farewell tour, which winds up in Vienna's Musikverein on 18 December. …
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No sleep till Vienna - Alfred Brendel bows out
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Did Mrs Bach really do more than the cooking, cleaning, washing up, dusting, ironing, floor scrubbing, child rearing, nappy changing, bed making and grocery shopping ?
http://intermezzo.typepad.com/intermezzo/2008/10/did-mrs-bach-really-do-more-than-the-cooking-cleaning-washing-up-dusting-ironing-floor-scrubbing-child-rearing-nappy-c.html[IMG Anna-magdalena-bach[1]] YES says forensic-trained Australian academic Martin Jarvis, who claims he can show that Anna Magdalena Wilcke, Bach's second wife, wrote several of the manuscripts previously credited to her famous husband. …
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Surreality Show - ENO's Partenope
http://intermezzo.typepad.com/intermezzo/2008/10/partenope-english-national-opera.htmlPartenope - English National Opera, 9 October 2008 [IMG Eno-partenope-4[1]] Christopher Alden's new ENO production of Handel's Partenope is set in Jazz Age Paris and inspired by the surrealist photography of Man Ray. The opening scene though is more like a creepy echo of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, as John Mark Ainsley prowls the empty stage with camera at the ready. …
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IMÁGENES Y CRÍTICAS DE LES CONTES D'HOFMANN
http://rolandovillazon.blogspot.com/2008/11/imge4nes-y-crtic...Les Contes d'Hoffmann Times Online: He’s simply Villazón: back again with his trademark exuberance, hard ringing tenor, amazing eyebrows, and frightening ability to act a part as though wringing its neck. Intermezzo: This performance saw an older and wiser Villazón. A new word has entered his vocabulary - restraint- musicomh: Not vintage Offenbach then, but worth catching for Villazon's return to form. El Confidencial
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Anna Netrebko
http://anna-netrebko.blogspot.comLeipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra go on strike
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boulezian
http://boulezian.blogspot.comLeipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra go on strike
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Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.comIntermezzo
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Kinderkuchen for the FBI
http://blog.onopera.comA Christmas present from the Royal Opera House - watch Hänsel und Gretel online
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The Omniscient Mussel
http://theomniscientmussel.comin Ottawa has been appointed principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic. The Ottawa Citizen is curiously silent on the matter but the CBC and NYT have further details. Gramophone’s recent list of the world’s best orchestras has spawned some rather amusing alt.lists as well as encouraging some bloggers to do their own surveys. [Vote Gianandrea!] You probably won’t hear many ministers giving this version of the Gift of The Magi story this Advent season, but it sure makes a good cartoon. Just in case you missed
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Conductor Richard Hickox Dies At 60
http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/11/conductor-richard-hic...in Ottawa has been appointed principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic. The Ottawa Citizen is curiously silent on the matter but the CBC and NYT have further details. Gramophone’s recent list of the world’s best orchestras has spawned some rather amusing alt.lists as well as encouraging some bloggers to do their own surveys. [Vote Gianandrea!] You probably won’t hear many ministers giving this version of the Gift of The Magi story this Advent season, but it sure makes a good cartoon. Just in case you missed
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London Stuff
http://londonstuff.blogspot.comPrima Mr Gelb
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Kinderkuchen for the FBI
http://blog.onopera.comZeffirelli with knobs on - Robert Lepage's dilution of Faust
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boulezian
http://boulezian.blogspot.com<40 = $20 : Boston Symphony Orchestra's magic numbers
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