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| 26-Apr-2013 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Lionel Bringuier with the LA Philharmonic in Saint-Säens and Ravel |
 It was the golden jubilee of Saint-Säens as a concert pianist, and in celebration he performed his crowning glory, the Piano Concerto no. 5 in F, “Egyptian”, which he composed while on tour in Luxor, incorporating exotic Middle Eastern melodies and rhythms. The concerto is not known to be given over to excessive fin de siècle romanticism, and whatever there was Jean-Yves Thibaudet certainly didn’t overindulge in.Read full review... | |
| 20-Apr-2013 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Karen Gomyo and Andreas Delfs with the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
 Ferdinand David, the concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra when Mendelssohn was conductor, must have been quite a virtuoso for the composer to have written his Violin Concerto in E minor for him. In this wildly popular work, soloist Karen Gomyo with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Andreas Delfs on Saturday was up against stiff competition, Anne-Sophie Mutter having performed it with the same orchestra last year.Read full review... | |
| 7-Apr-2013 Mayo Performing Arts Center | New Jersey Symphony and Susanna Mälkki in Strauss, Debussy and Messiaen |
 My last encounter with conductor Susanna Mälkki was her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic two and a half years ago. I was impressed with her crisp style of conducting that delivered near-seismic impact in Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. I predicted she would go far in her career, and am delighted to discover that she has since been the first woman conductor to perform at La Scala, Milan.
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| 27-Mar-2013 City Hall Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Mozart and Beethoven evergreens |
 Over the years, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta has made laudable efforts in bringing classical music to the masses and recruiting new audiences. Of necessity, it sticks to a well-trodden repertoire of evergreens which challenges musicians to bring a fresh perspective.
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| 21-Mar-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | A stunning experience with Sydney Symphony in Carmina Burana |
 One of the pleasures of attending live concerts is discovering sounds that recordings often mask or fail to highlight. Occasionally, the sheer enormity of the experience can be so stunning that I reel from it for days. The “2013 Season Special Event” of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on Thursday was one of those occasions. The main attraction of the evening was Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, but to whet our appetite guest conductor Long Yu led the orchestra in Enchantements oubliés by contemporary Chinese composer Chen Qigang.
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| 23-Feb-2013 HKAPA: Concert Hall | City Chamber Orchestra and Die Konzertisten perform Britten at the Hong Kong Arts Festival |
 In celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, the Hong Kong Arts Festival this year is presenting three programmes of works by the composer in collaboration with local choral group Die Konzertisten. The first of these, collectively called “The Britten 100 Project”, consisted of his early works based on religious themes completed mostly in the decade between 1934 and 1943.
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| 26-Jan-2013 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky, Lutoslawski and Shostakovich |
 I often think of Lorin Maazel as the American equivalent of Sir Colin Davis – they are both in their eighties and they both deliver steady, reliable interpretations that let the music speak for itself. Maazel’s return performance with the New York Philharmonic on Saturday re-affirmed my view.
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| 12-Jan-2013 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The king of instruments: David Atherton, David Drury and the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
 Former Hong Kong Philharmonic Music Director David Atherton returned to his hometown on Saturday to lead the orchestra in a concert entitled “The King of Instruments”, a reference to works on the programme involving the organ, an instrument rarely heard in the symphony hall.
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| 5-Jan-2013 City Hall Concert Hall | New Year double bill in Hong Kong: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci |
 120 years after the Metropolitan Opera in New York paired Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in a single performance, the tradition of staging these representative works of verismo opera in a double bill continued this weekend with a production under the direction of Lo Kingman, Hong Kong’s home-grown doyen of opera.
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| 8-Dec-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Jaap van Zweden shows his mettle: Mendelssohn and Elgar with the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
 Although Mendelssohn and Elgar lived in different eras and composed in very different styles, a common thread runs through their works featured in Hong Kong Philharmonic’s performance on Saturday – all of them draw their inspiration from the British Isles.
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| 2-Dec-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The MET Orchestra showcases its diverse skills in Gubaidulina, Beethoven and Stravinsky |
 One can be forgiven for expecting that a Sunday afternoon concert should consist of light classics to which one doesn’t need to apply too much mental exertion. The works in yesterday afternoon’s performance by the MET Orchestra under music director Fabio Luisi were anything but light. In fact, I suspect that the electrifying energy of the concert would be enough to keep me going for a long time.
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| 28-Nov-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Vasily Petrenko conducts the OSM in Barber and Shostakovich |
 My return to La Maison Symphonique in Montreal on Wednesday was a bag full of surprises. The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal opened with a work I didn’t even know was on the programme; the accompanying orchestra put in a stronger showing than the soloist in the concerto; and a difficult symphony was done so well it practically jumped at the audience.
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| 16-Nov-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Anne-Sophie Mutter debuts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
 Michael Francis is the go-to conductor to replace fellow maestros at short notice. The newly appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor to Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden stood in for Valery Gergiev with only 12 hours’ notice, and for John Adams with even less, in performances with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Fortunately, his appearance with the Hong Kong Philharmonic on Friday was anything but under-rehearsed.
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| 9-Nov-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell and a well-honed Mahler 5 with the San Francisco Symphony in Hong Kong |
 Faced with ageing audiences, dwindling funding and slashed budgets, many fine orchestras feel besieged at home these days, let alone being able to embark on costly tours overseas – all the more reason why the San Francisco Symphony’s ambitious tour of six cities in Asia is a cause for celebration. The orchestra’s decision to include works by American composers who draw their inspiration from this part of the world is a masterstroke of cultural diplomacy.
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| 20-Oct-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Hong Kong Philharmonic with Mozart and a gripping Shostakovich 7 |
 In terms of Mozart’s piano concerti, K482 is known less for its intrinsic musical quality than its predecessor (K467) and its successor (K488), but it is more famous due to the unusual circumstances of its public introduction. Finishing it in Vienna on 16 December 1785, Mozart appeared as soloist in its first performance the same evening, inserted between the acts of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf’s oratorio Esther. In its more formal première a week later, the audience demanded an encore of the Andante movement, which was almost unheard of at the time.Read full review... | |
| 14-Oct-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre | La Traviata with Opera Hong Kong: A commendable breakthrough |
 Verdi’s La Traviata is frequently listed as one of the most often programmed operas worldwide. Since it premiered in 1854, it must have greeted audiences around the world tens of thousands of times. It’s no wonder that all directors feel compelled to find new angles of interpretation to inject freshness and vitality into the opera – Willy Decker’s bold attempt at contemporary near-minimalism in Salzburg and then New York being the most memorable in the last decade.
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| 29-Sep-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Jaap van Zweden debuts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in exquisite Chinese works |
 It’s not often that Beethoven gets second billing in a concert, but Jaap van Zweden’s inaugural programme as Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on Saturday gave this impression. Two student compositions with strong Chinese heritage stole the limelight this evening, which was also the orchestra’s celebration of China’s National Day on 1 October.
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| 9-Jul-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Bramwell Tovey and the New York Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky Summer Classics |
 The moment I walked into the Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night, a pervasive air of festivity was palpable – the players in the orchestra wore white jackets, lighting was colourful and the audience was chatty. Conductor Bramwell Tovey, in his ninth year hosting the New York Philharmonic’s “Summertime Classics” concert series, did his part to make the evening entertaining, with humorous commentary about the works in this all-Tchaikovsky programme that also shed light on signposts for better enjoyment.
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| 9-Jun-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic delights with Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Ravel |
 “Cultural melting-pot” is a term so often used to describe Hong Kong that it has become a cliché. On Saturday, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra provided a living example of how the city relishes a mixture of cultural influences in a programme of works by French composers incorporating clear foreign influences, predominantly from Spain.
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| 2-Jun-2012 City Hall Concert Hall | Hong Kong Sinfonietta measures up to world standards in Mozart and Brahms |
 “Music from three centuries comes together in tonight’s concert,” declare the programme notes to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta performance at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Indeed it surveyed the best and most famous in the classical canon. What caught my attention, however, was the opening work: Frates by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Many versions of the work exist – for violin and piano; 12 solo cellos; string quartet; and string orchestra and percussion, the one dating to 1984 featured last night.
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| 28-May-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Cirque Éloize in Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé |
 The concert by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) on Monday concluded its 2011/2012 season, the first in its new home at the Maison Symphonique de Montréal.
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| 19-May-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic in works by Britten, Debussy and Brahms |
 DIETER NAGL.jpg) The central character in Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes is a fisherman outcast contending with the wrath of his community. The score for the Four Sea Interludes, extracted from it, weaves often threadbare orchestral parts into a menacing mosaic of moods in the story and conditions which the characters have to battle.Read full review... | |
| 2-May-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony |
 The sheer scale of Mahler’s Symphony no. 6 in A minor and the questions of interpretation it poses to performers are such that I’m surprised it appears on the concert calendar as often as it does – no less than twice in the last 18 months alone by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Alan Gilbert.
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| 29-Apr-2012 Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Verizon Hall | The Philadelphia Orchestra in works by Brahms, Webern and Schumann |
 For its concert on Sunday afternoon, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Simon Rattle performed symphonic works which, the programme notes claimed, “invite us to think about the possibilities of hidden musical meaning”.
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| 24-Apr-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | The Philharmonia Orchestra in Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky |
 As I listened to the opening work in the Philharmonia Orchestra’s concert on Tuesday night, I couldn’t help thinking that Sibelius’ tone poem Night Ride and Sunrise is the musical equivalent of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Similar to the theme in this play, the main theme in the symphonic work, depicting a lone horseman’s nocturnal gallop through the forest, is repetitive and at points rather dreary.Read full review... | |
| 17-Mar-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Rozhdestvensky and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Play Tchaikovsky |
 Overshadowed by far better-known and more frequently performed companions in his oeuvre, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in G and the Manfred Symphony have received their fair share of criticism. Their length and stylistic oddities require strong force of will to pull off in performance – some performers (such as pianist Alexander Siloti) have gone so far as to make their own amendments. With the Hong Kong Philharmonic on Saturday, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and his wife, the pianist Viktoria Postnikova, stayed faithful to the script.
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| 2-Mar-2012 City Hall Concert Hall | Yo-Yo Ma celebrates Hong Kong City Hall's birthday |
 To celebrate the 50th birthday of the City Hall Concert Hall on March 2nd, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra chose a programme of short but diverse works with undulating emotional appeal. Star soloist for the evening was cellist Yo-Yo Ma, returning three and a half decades after his debut here.
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| 26-Feb-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre | Bavarian State Opera: Così fan tutte at the Hong Kong Arts Festival |
 Wilfried Hösl_MG_7941.jpg) For its 40th anniversary, the Hong Kong Arts Festival chose Mozart’s Così fan tutte as its main opera offering. Whatever you may call it – opera buffa, comedy of manners, or “dramma giocoso” – Mozart’s lovely music makes Così fan tutte wonderful entertainment. That’s what the Bavarian State Opera delivered on Sunday afternoon to commemorate this important milestone of the Festival.
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| 22-Feb-2012 Sidney Myer Music Bowl | Melbourne Symphony: Kodály, Liszt and Tchaikovsky |
 Wednesday’s performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, entitled “Rising Star,” was the third in a series of four free concerts this year at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. For over fifty years, these annual free concerts have given audiences in Melbourne a unique opportunity to sample select works from the classical music repertoire in open air. More than 9,000 attended Wednesday’s concert alone, many bringing picnic boxes and sitting on the grass.
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| 12-Feb-2012 New Jersey Performing Arts Centre | Opera New Jersey’s Tosca |
 For more than half a century since the 1960s, several productions featuring some of the best-known celebrities in the opera world have set high standards for Puccini’s Tosca, that “shabby little shocker,” as a musicologist once called it. Maria Callas, Angela Gheorghiu, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel have all etched in the minds of the opera-going public varying images of how it should be done. Under the circumstances, it was only natural that I went to see Opera New Jersey’s performance on Sunday with some expectations.
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| 20-Jan-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic: “Story Time” |
 Many Hong Kong Philharmonic concerts in the 2011-2012 season have descriptions attached to them. The one for Friday was “Story Time.” The stories of the first and last works on the programme, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov were clear enough; though that of the Mozart Piano Concerto no. 9 in E flat, K271, was a little more obscure.
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| 8-Jan-2012 Davies Symphony Hall | The San Francisco Symphony: An innovative programme but with few surprises |
 For last Sunday’s concert, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony chose a programme with a distinctly Eastern European flavour spanning almost a century and a half. They began with Liszt’s Prometheus, an overture to a set of choral pieces Liszt wrote for a festival celebrating the life and works of German literary philosopher Gottfried von Herder in 1850.
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| 4-Dec-2011 Barbican Centre: Hall | Mitsuko Uchida in perfect harmony with the London Symphony Orchestra |
 With his Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, the centerpiece in the concert with the London Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, Beethoven took the classical concerto format he had inherited into uncharted waters. The work opens with a series of piano chords, which the orchestra takes up, develops and kneads into riveting thematic material before the soloist returns. In addition to this role reversal between soloist and orchestra, the work also explores new dimensions in their relationship.
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| 2-Dec-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra play Mozart and Mahler |
 I went to the concert with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday with some pre-conceived ideas about how they should play the two works on the programme, and came away satisfied that the performance more than met expectations.
Having heard Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 23 in A many times, played by masters of the instrument – Anda, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Brendel, Horowitz and Kempff, to name but a few – I had high expectations for the soloist for the evening, Paul Lewis.
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| 22-Oct-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Beethoven, Elgar and Wagner with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in soul-cleansing evening |
 It sounds almost like heresy to describe a Beethoven composition as “light”, but it would be appropriate for the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert on Saturday. His Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68, Pastoral, was like soufflé to the crème brûlée of Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture. Placing the Wagner overture at the end was a clever stroke in programming that prevented the Beethoven work from becoming an anti-climax.
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| 30-Sep-2011 Walt Disney Concert Hall | LA Philharmonic in works by Adams, Benzecry and Berlioz |
 At first glance, there was not much in common between the two halves of the programme in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra concert on Friday. Chronologically, the works are some almost two centuries apart, and the composers hail from diverse cultural backgrounds. On closer inspection, however, they seem to share at least a couple of themes: they were conceived to depict certain ideas other than the music itself, and they challenged the capability of the orchestra or musical conventions of their time.
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| 19-Sep-2011 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Opera Australia’s latest La Bohème stands tall among the rest |
 After the untimely passing of Salvatore Licitra, touted the “new Pavarotti”, in a motor-scooter accident earlier this month, I hardly dare suggest anyone as potential successor to the lyric tenor of the finest Italian tradition, lest he be jinxed. Yet, I would be doing a great disservice to Mexican tenor Diego Torre if I didn’t even make a passing mention of his possible candidacy.
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| 10-Sep-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | An evening of great satisfaction with HKPO and Rachmaninov |
_Simon_Fowler-EMI_Classics.jpg) In the relay race of Russian Romanticism, Rachmaninov clearly took the baton from Tchaikovsky and made a dash for the finishing line. In transcribing some of Tchaikovsky’s works, he would have imbibed much of his genius, but he took the Romantic tradition into the 20th century in a new direction without losing its essence.
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| 3-Sep-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic in an evening of Mozart and Mahler |
 The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra clearly wore its heart on its sleeves in naming the opening concert for the 2011/12 season “Heaven and Earth”. There could be no mistake in matching the works to the title. Saturday’s performance showcased the versatility and maturity of the orchestra in handling sharply divergent artistic intentions.
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| 25-Aug-2011 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Léhar’s Merry Widow - a lively cast in schmaltzy melodies with a dash of cabaret |
 Operettas are not supposed to have plausible plots, yet the seemingly implausible plot of Franz Léhar’s Merry Widow cuts to the quick in the current environment of possible sovereign bankruptcy. A “merry” widow would be rather callous in any case. The saccharine-soaked melodies, however, are enough to keep me still. Long an admirer of the Gold and Silver waltz, I am biased.
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| 5-Aug-2011 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra – light, sweet and refreshing |
 The New York based Mostly Mozart Festival is easily overshadowed by Tanglewood Summer Season at the same time in Massachusetts, but it would be careless to underestimate its quality. The programme on August 5th, 2011 banished any doubt about its ability to live up to world standards.
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| 10-Jun-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic in “Pictures from Russia” |
 The pictures in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance on Friday, dubbed “Pictures from Russia”, were clear, perfectly hued and daubed with rich colour. The command that conductor Carolyn Kuan held over the Orchestra produced an evening of electric excitement.
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| 3-Jun-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Emotionally charged exhilaration with the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
 It is bold for an Asian orchestra to tackle a programme of works with a strong and vibrant ethnic character. We got far more than we bargained for in the concert titled “Bravo! Piazzolla” by the Hong Kong Philharmonic on Friday, not only in terms of the generous encores but more so of the quality of performance. Under the baton of visiting conductor Gisèle Ben-Dor, the orchestra delivered a punchy sound of fire from the guts. Moments of lyrical languor augmented the racy stream of clear texture, vibrant colour, and throbbing pace.
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| 27-May-2011 QPAC: Lyric Theatre | The Queensland Symphony - weaving music and drama into an evening of enchanting light entertainment |
 Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the incidental music by Mendelssohn it inspires both employ a wide range of expressive techniques in their respective medium. Bringing the drama and the music together in one performance, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and 4MBS Arts Productions delivered an evening of finely tuned light entertainment.
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| 8-May-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | One word sums up Mahler’s 3rd symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Lorin Maazel: clarity |
| It takes any orchestra plenty of confidence and daring to embark on a single-work programme. There isn’t much chance for redemption should something go amiss. Then again, the length of Mahler’s third symphony and its demands on physical and emotional stamina don’t leave the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Lorin Maazel much choice. As it turns out, they acquitted themselves with flying colours.
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| 9-Apr-2011 City Hall Concert Hall | The Hong Kong Philharmonic turns light entertainment into high artistic accomplishment |
| Giving its concert on April 9th the subtitle “Sing Mozart Sing” and promoting it with a tongue-in-cheek portrait of the mischievous genius with his mouth half open in a wry smile, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra probably intended the audience to expect an evening of cheerful and light entertainment. The programming suited this intention down to a tee. Progressing from the baroque to the classical, it was chronologically correct, and temperamentally appropriate.
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| 24-Mar-2011 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Opera Australia’s The Barber of Seville is remarkable musical theatre at its best |
 CBranco Gaica 2.2.2011.jpg) Opera Australia’s production of the Rossini magnum opus The Barber of Seville is a period piece, featuring an era a century later than the one in which it was composed. In this revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s production, director Cathy Dadd masterfully transports the action from the classical period of the 1810s to the silent movies of the 1910s.
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| 27-Feb-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Hong Kong Philharmonic in works by Strauss and Zemlinsky |
 Edo de Waart, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, chose for his contribution to the 2011 Arts Festival works by two Germanic composers spanning the late Romantic and early modern periods who were almost exact contemporaries. Richard Strauss coincidentally was born seven years before and died seven years after Alexander von Zemlinsky.
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| 8-Feb-2011 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | Opera Australia’s scintillating production of Carmen |
 In an opera of such popularity as Carmen by Georges Bizet, it wouldn’t be easy to please an audience likely to be inured to a variety of performances of arias such as Habanera and The Toreador’s Song. Yet Opera Australia made a thoughtfully constructed and well vindicated attempt.
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| 21-Jan-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Condemnation to redemption – OAE and Vladimir Jurowski |
| Friday night's performance by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the Royal Festival Hall under Vladimir Jurowski got off to a slow and somewhat insecure start. Sixth in the series of concerts by the orchestra in the 2010-2011 season, sub-titled Symphonic Enlightenment, the concert opened with the Prelude to Parsifal by Wagner.
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