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Artiste: Gerard McBurney

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Musically peerless but battering: Wozzeck in Aix

Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck) © Monika Rittershaus
Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO give an orchestral performance to remember, with a fine singing cast, but Simon McBurney's staging dials the bleakness to maximum too early.

Salonen leads the Philharmonia in an animated Prometheus

Trying to rekindle the public’s interest for a rarely played work, Salonen and his collaborators took an unusual approach.

Twilight draws on LA Phil’s look back at Weimar Germany

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen look back at the dwindling twilight years of the Weimar Republic. 

A resurrection of a Hollywood oddity by Rattle and the LSO

Sir Simon Rattle’s resurrection of a Hollywood extravaganza, the Genesis Suite, entertains at the Barbican. 

Hallé goes “beyond the score”

"Muddle instead of music": three foreboding words laden with threat and designed to destroy the reputation of a promising composer writing in the grip of the Iron Fist. 

Prom 52: An excellent evening of innovation from Elder and the Hallé

The Halle orchestra combined forces with a troup of actors to deliver a Beyond The Score analysis & performance of Dvorak's famous 9th Symphony (from the New World.)