Tag Archives: Berg

Trwy’r anialwch

Posted on June 10, 2014 by vhk10

One of the most famous poetic evocations of the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness is in Welsh (look in your hymnbook). So it seemed appropriate to see Moses und Aron in Cardiff, complete with Welsh surtitles. Really though I was … Continue reading →

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My 13

Posted on February 18, 2014 by vhk10

The new Op13 music shop in Bristol has some posters inside, each showing 13 composers chosen by local musicians, some known personally to me. I couldn’t see them without thinking of what my own list would be and have used … Continue reading →

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A family night out at the opera

Posted on June 15, 2013 by vhk10

#enowozzeck In fact we didn’t all go to the same opera. My husband and daughter went to Don Carlos at Covent Garden (she will write about this in her own blog in due course), and when I realised that the … Continue reading →

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Sequins, meat-hooks and umbrellas

Posted on March 2, 2013 by vhk10

#wnolulu WNO didn’t make it to Bristol with their new production of Lulu, so I had to go to Cardiff. Judging by what I heard around me, quite a few others had crossed the Severn for the opening night. (I … Continue reading →

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Prom 57: a sprint from Ely

Posted on October 13, 2012 by vhk10

Somehow I managed to get away after 4 p.m. evensong at Ely Cathedral, made it to the railway station, leapt onto another train at Cambridge and then arrived at the Albert Hall around 7 o’clock to be there for the … Continue reading →

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Prom 66: Mahler’s 11th

Posted on September 7, 2010 by vhk10

One of my great regrets with regard to singing came back in 2002 when I was for a short time in the Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS) chorus. Members were invited to join a performance of Mahler 8 later that … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 23: the end of romanticism

Posted on July 29, 2010 by vhk10

This batch began with the second LP of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances and overture My Home. Then a treasured disc of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Strauss; we have been unable to agree on whether her performance of the Four Last Songs or … Continue reading →

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the Navarra quartet in Chew Magna

Posted on May 30, 2010 by vhk10

The late Miles Kington once passed an observation made to him that many Somerset village names could be those of lawyers from American TV mini-series. I can’t however imagine a lawyer called Chew Magna, one of my favourites, where I … Continue reading →

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a controversial video

Posted on October 15, 2009 by vhk10

I went with a friend to the performance of Berg’s Wozzeck at the Royal Festival Hall which ended the Philharmonia and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s City of Dreams season. I did some background reading for this by digging out my copy of … Continue reading →

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six gunshots

Posted on June 30, 2009 by vhk10

The audience for the ROH’s recent production of Lulu were warned that they would hear these towards the end of the first scene of Act II (though if you don’t already know that this work contains gunfire, you probably also … Continue reading →

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