Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life: the essence of Satie

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 03 November 2016

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 1 November 2016

Satie, Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life (dramatised piano recital)

Anne Lovett, Piano

William Gaminara, Actor

Max Hoehn, Director

Gothic Opera allows Offenbach’s Die Rheinnixen to shine in Battersea

Nick Boston, 2nd November

Gothic Opera's seventh outing is a powerful performance of Jacques Offenbach’s little known Die Rheinnixen at Battersea Arts Centre.

****1

Musical performances keep WNO's new Così afloat

Mark Valencia, 6th March

Max Hoehn takes Così‘s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School for Lovers), and connects it to Monty Python’s sex education sketch in The Meaning of Life. What larks, eh?

***11

WNO’s Figaro revival crackles with humour and exudes joie de vivre

Alice Hughes, 16th February

A solid Figaro in Cardiff, in which individual performances are a joy, and humour abounds.

****1

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

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.

*****

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

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.