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Artikel von Mark Valencia

Michael Spyres and Laurent Naouri © BBC | Chris Christodoulou

Prom 31: An intoxicating La Damnation de Faust from Gardiner and the ORR

Von Mark Valencia, 09 August 2017
An unapologetic treat at the Proms and a composition of immediate appeal.
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Grigory Sokolov © Aline Paley

A dazzling display of formidable technique: Grigory Sokolov at the Verbier Festival

Von Mark Valencia, 26 Juli 2017
Colours poured in through a metaphorical stained glass window in Verbier's church.
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Barry Douglas and the Pavel Haas Quartet © Nicolas Brodard

Brahms at altitude: Pavel Haas Quartet and Barry Douglas at the Verbier Festival

Von Mark Valencia, 25 Juli 2017
A Finale of scorching changeability and complexity, with a coda whose ferocity drew gasps.
*****
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Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin © Nicolas Brodard

Sunny Strauss on Verbier's slopes from Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin

Von Mark Valencia, 23 Juli 2017
There were piano arpeggios that could have come from the pen of no other composer
****1
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Gun-Brit Barkmin © Aline Paley

A Salome lacking drama at the Verbier Festival

Von Mark Valencia, 22 Juli 2017
Like most honest listeners I crave a taste of turpitude in Salome.
**111
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Roderick Williams (Billy Budd) © Sam Murray-Sutton

Opera North sails in to the Aldeburgh Festival with a buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Von Mark Valencia, 25 Juni 2017
At the opera’s great climaxes Suffolk’s famous wood-and-brick building could barely contain it.
*****
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Messiah © Monika Kolstad

A staged Messiah that sheds little light on Handel's oratorio

Von Mark Valencia, 02 Juni 2017
Netia Jones is a visionary stage practitioner, but this show is a rare misjudgement.
***11
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La Passione de Simone © Smau Media

La Passion de Simone: more a love letter than a portrait

Von Mark Valencia, 01 Juni 2017
Saariaho’s lush orchestral shapes could just as readily suggest ecstasy as agony.
**111
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Stuart Skelton (Peter Grimes) © Thor Brødreskift

Seelisch zerrüttet: Stuart Skelton führt einen grandiosen Peter Grimes an

Von Mark Valencia, 31 Mai 2017
Dieser Peter Grimes war die Geschichte zweier Talente: der Dirigent und der Sänger.
*****
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The Ariodante cast © Robert Workman

Handel on tour: The English Concert's star-studded Ariodante reaches London's Barbican

Von Mark Valencia, 18 Mai 2017
A probing, exultant and musically tireless performance from The English COncert.
****1
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Daniel Hope © Harald Hoffmann | DG

A string orchestra showcase from Daniel Hope and the Basel Chamber Orchestra

Von Mark Valencia, 19 April 2017
Hope can spin high-lying musical phrases with a sweetness and suspension that few of his contemporaries can match.
****1
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Gianandrea Noseda © Ramella & Giannese | Teatro Regio di Torino

Haunting Berg from Jansen and Noseda; big-boned Mahler from the LSO

Von Mark Valencia, 08 April 2017
An exhilarating ride through Mahler's Seventh at the Barbican. 
****1
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Daniel Harding © Julian Hargreaves

By the rivers of Babylon: Daniel Harding conducts Widmann at the Philharmonie

Von Mark Valencia, 26 Januar 2017
A startling new work from Jörg Widmann follows disciplined Beethoven at the Philharmonie. 
****1
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Mark Padmore © Marco Borggreve

Power (and Padmore) to the ECO in Britten, Tippett and Woolrich

Von Mark Valencia, 22 Januar 2017
An evening of English repertoire at King's Place where the pleasures were flecked with disappointments. 
***11
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Allison Cook and Barbara Hannigan © Mark Allan | Barbican

The importance of being Alice: a tale of diminishing returns

Von Mark Valencia, 29 November 2016
Lewis Carroll's Alice: so crazy that all Gerald Barry can do is make it crazier.
***11
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François-Xavier Roth and the BBCSO © BBC | Chris Christodoulou

A Berlioz Requiem of scale and sensitivity

Von Mark Valencia, 14 November 2016
The silence of the Cenotaph was swept away by the greatest howl of anguish in music.
****1
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Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker © BBC | Chris Christodoulou

Prom 64: Rattle and the BPO find beauty in Boulez and magic in Mahler

Von Mark Valencia, 03 September 2016
Such a protean symphony needs a deft hand on the tiller and, as in his CBSO recording, Simon Rattle was just the man to steer it into harbour.
*****
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Brett Polegato (Kurwenal), Rachel Nicholls (Isolde) and Torsten Kerl (Tristan) © Vincent Pontet

A rapturous Tristan und Isolde in Paris

Von Mark Valencia, 17 Mai 2016
At the basic level Tristan und Isolde is an opera of hormones, not happenings; fathoms deeper it explores human experience at a point where sense is dumb and flesh retires – as close to heaven and hell as it’s possible to go without first having to die.
****1
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David Soar and Sir Andrew Davis © BBC | Mark Allan

Magical revelations: Andrew Davis and BBC Symphony forces cast a spell in Berlioz

Von Mark Valencia, 25 Januar 2016
The coda to Juliet's "Convoi funèbre" crystallised all that was exceptional about this performance of Berlioz's symphonie dramatique.
*****
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Magdalena Kožená (Mélisande) © Tristram Kenton

Rattle and Sellars revisit Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

Von Mark Valencia, 10 Januar 2016
A roster of star performers and a sprinkling of maestro magic turn this semi-staged concert into a memorable event. Shame about the big ideas.
****1
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