Tag Archives: Schubert

The Britten Sinfonia at the Wiltshire Music Centre

Posted on June 11, 2012 by vhk10

I made a detour to hear the Britten Sinfonia at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Viennese repertoire. Bath itself has a lack of concert halls that are a natural size for a small orchestra – the Assembly Rooms and Guildhall … Continue reading →

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Bruckner and the snoring hummingbird

Posted on May 25, 2012 by vhk10

During rehearsals our choirmaster, Gavin Carr, told about the viral YouTube video of a hummingbird apparently snoring. I’m not sure quite how this was intended to inform our performance of Bruckner’s Mass in F minor – not at least by … Continue reading →

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The Spirit of Schubert

Posted on April 11, 2012 by vhk10

The latest survey of a composer’s entire output on Radio 3 focused on Schubert. As I’ve said in my last posting, I was present at a live evening broadcast, but I also found time to listen to some of the … Continue reading →

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an invited audience

Posted on March 28, 2012 by vhk10

QCX8F7BA4GBJ EE5BNTGVNBT6 I attended a concert which was broadcast live as part of the BBC’s mammoth Schubertiad, Elisabeth Leonskaja playing the last two piano sonatas, D959 and D960, in the Assembly Rooms. The audience was not very large, and I … Continue reading →

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Bath Mozartfest 2011 (3): Padmore/Watkins/Drake and Grace Francis

Posted on December 23, 2011 by vhk10

We snapped up a few tickets while the Festival was in progress and so ended up going to lots of concerts. Some of the family went to hear Mark Padmore in the Guildhall accompanied by Julius Drake and alongside Richard … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 31: choral heavyweights

Posted on October 25, 2011 by vhk10

Now well past the 200 LP mark.  Bringing up the rear of the ‘serious’ music were two sets: a second recording of Verdi’s Requiem, with Guilini and the Philharmonia (for good measure, we also had the same forces doing the … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 27: forever in the catalogue

Posted on May 7, 2011 by vhk10

Not much early music among our LPs, but I hit a chunk of it here with two lots of Monteverdi. Sadly, I think the eponymous Monteverdi Choir’s performance of the Vespers of 1610 (the earlier, studio, recording) is in too … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 26: more sticking points

Posted on April 30, 2011 by vhk10

I actually recorded these LPs some months ago, but am behind with writing them up. This batch began with a Hungaroton transfer of Beethoven violin sonatas performed by Dénes Kovacs and Mihaly Bächer. Some of the other discs in the … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 25: concertos and chamber music

Posted on November 12, 2010 by vhk10

I’m moving on to some of the boxed sets I haven’t tackled earlier. Three of the discs in this batch were recordings that we very much want to have available: Beethoven middle-period string quartets played by the Alban Berg Quartet. … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 24: Liszt

Posted on August 9, 2010 by vhk10

Quite a lot of piano and chamber music remain to be done, and I tackled some of it in this batch. Beginning with two discs of quartets from Eastern Europe: a Supraphon of the Smetana Quartet playing Janáček’s and the … Continue reading →

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