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LSO/Barbara Hannigan review – playing havoc with the balance of sympathies
- LSO/Barbara Hannigan review – playing havoc with the balance of sympathies. Barbican, LondonThe soprano and conductor takes on jarring dual role as she juxtaposes Strauss’s Metamorphosen with a multimedia version of La Voix Humaine
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La Passione review – Grisey's masterpiece endures
La Passione review – Grisey's masterpiece endures. Barbara Hannigan/Ludwig Orchestra (Alpha)Hannigan conducts and sings Gérard Grisey’s final prescient work with style, conceiving it as a triptych with works by Handel and Luigi Nono
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Nick Daniel & Friends at the Aldeburgh Festival, plus the best of June’s classical concerts
One of the things that makes the Aldeburgh Festival special is the way the mysterious flat landscape, the festival’s history and the musical programme all partake of the same spirit. Key to that spirit is the festival’s founder Benjamin Britten, whose image as always crops up in this year’s programme book. Also pictured there is another musician who is now part of Aldeburgh’s history - Oliver Knussen, the famed composer and conductor and lynch-pin of the Britten-Pears Foundation’s Summer Schools
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LSO/Rattle/Hannigan review – Abrahamsen's masterpiece soars
Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. When Hans Abrahamsen’s song cycle Let Me Tell You received its British premiere in Birmingham in 2014, six months after its first performance in Munich, it seemed an almost impossibly beautiful work, conjuring orchestral textures of extraordinary delicacy and freshness to support its apparently weightless soprano lines. Sung as seraphically as ever by Barbara Hannigan for whom the cycle was composed, Let Me Tell You was the centrepiece of Si
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Lessons in Love and Violence, Royal Opera House, London, review: A Rolls Royce production that could use a few tunes
George Benjamin’s last opera, Written on Skin, has had such glittering international success – notching up more productions per year than Britten’s much-loved Peter Grimes – that expectations were sky-high for the new one which has just opened at the Royal Opera House. With co-producing houses in five other countries, Lessons in Love and Violence is assured of world-wide attention, despite the size and complexity of its cast, orchestration, and staging.
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Brilliant music, rapturously received - Hamlet, Glyndebourne, reviewÂ
Brilliant music, rapturously received - Hamlet, Glyndebourne, reviewÂ
