Isa Katharina Gericke in recital in Stockholm

By Sofia Nyblom, 05 May 2014

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Reviewed at Allhelgonakyrkan, Stockholm on 3 May 2014

Works by Borgstrøm

Jordan, Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte

Beethoven, Rondo in C major, Op.51 no.1

Works by Hakanson

Liszt, Isolde's Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, transc. for piano, S 447

Works by Dørumsgaard

Hurum, Det var en deilig hane (There was a gorgeous cockerel)

Grieg, Våren (Spring), Op.33 no.2

Isa Katharina Gericke, Soprano

Bengt Forsberg, Piano

Nisbeth and Forsberg in Grieg’s living room

Aksel Tollåli, 26th May

An impressively well-planned programme of mostly viola transcriptions by Grainger, Bach, Delius, Ellington and Grieg.

****1

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

****1

Kinan Azmeh offers a sampling of delights with St Luke’s

No’a L. bat Miri, 15th April

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.

****1

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Sofia Nyblom

Sofia Nyblom is a Swedish arts journalist, critic, presenter and radio and tv-producer. With a background as a professionally trained singer, she today prefers watching opera and singing in choir - and she loves dance. Twitter: @nyblomsofia. Her website is here.