Aspects of love from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Par Mark Pullinger, 30 septembre 2020

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Critique faite à Wigmore Hall, Londres, le 30 septembre 2020

Schubert, Adagio et rondo en fa majeur, D.487

Glinka, Doubt (Somnenie)

Borodine, The beautiful girl does not love me

Whitley, This is My Love Poem for You

Walker, Lyric for Strings

Barber, Dover Beach, Op.3

Korngold, Piano Quintet in E major, Op.15

Rodgers, South Pacific: Some enchanted evening

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Matthew Rose, Basse

Elena Urioste, Violon

Savitri Grier, Violon

Rosalind Ventris, Alto

Laura van der Heijden, Violoncelle

Tom Poster, Piano

Travels with a cello: Laura van der Heijden touches down in Sheffield

Steve Draper, 6th December

It's all the Bs for Laura van der Heijden and Tom Poster for Music in the Round.

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Tom Poster stars in a Hallé concert of Nordic magic

Peter Connors, 13th December

Grieg's Piano Concerto played by Tom Poster and the Hallé under Stpehen Bell was the highlight of a popular programme of Nordic favourites by Grieg and Sibelius

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Le Philhar’ engourdi dans la Neuvième du Nouvel An

Erwan Gentric, 4th January

Comme le veut la tradition instaurée en 2018, le Philhar' a commencé l'année avec la Neuvième Symphonie de Beethoven. Retour sur une exécution peu inspirée sous la baguette ronflante de Mikko Franck.

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Der Rosenkavalier à La Monnaie : doux souvenir d’un soir de neige

Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 28th October

Dans cette nouvelle production quasi monochrome signée Damiano Michieletto, La Monnaie dévoile un Rosenkavalier magnifiquement mélancolique, porté par la direction d'Alain Altinoglu.

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Un Messie inspiré à la Philharmonie de Paris

Clémence Faber, 22nd December

Douglas Boyd dirigeait l’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris dans un Messie de belle tenue à la Philharmonie de Paris. On y était.

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A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Thomas May, 16th January

Presented without staging, Seattle Opera’s concert Daphne places Strauss’ extreme vocal demands and saturated orchestral writing in sharp relief, offering a high-risk encounter with a rarely heard late opera.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Aspects of love in an enchanting evening from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective