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Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sanderling at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

Forty years ago the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic admirably championed Shostakovich’s music when other Western orchestras were wary. So it’s apt that the RLPO should now be promoting another Soviet-era composer — and one, moreover, who was admired ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Requiem (designer)

Far Theatricals at St Margaret’s, London SW1

Thank heavens for the private trusts that keep the wheels of new music turning. The John Armitage Memorial may not have the commissioning resources of some. But by concentrating on one area — music for combinations of voices, organ and brass (the ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Selwyn (musician),  Christopher Robinson,  Emily Dickinson,  Jonathan Brown

The Tsarina’s Slippers at Covent Garden

A comic work by Tchaikovsky is a bit like a laughing undertaker. You’re glad to see that the chap occasionally lets his hair down, but you can tell that it goes against the grain. (as the Royal Opera House is calling Cherevichki) was clearly dear to ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Royal Ballet

ENO takes on Handel's Messiah

Poor old Messiah. Has any musical masterpiece been more mauled and made over? Handel hadn’t been dead 40 years and already Mozart was tinkering with it — adding twiddles for clarinets and flutes and turning The Trumpet Shall Sound into “The French Horn ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: In Style,  Cecil B. DeMille

Bidders still after bargains

Can you profit through buying collectibles at country auctions, then selling them on eBay? Given that the average country auction attracts 100 people and eBay has 78 million members, you'd think it would be relatively easy to find a collector in the ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Vancouver Sun,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Jim Reid

The ten best classical albums of the Noughties

The South Korean composer comes good with the visionary beauty of her violin concerto, lightly nodding to Eastern culture as its soloist (Viviane Hagner) soars through what sounds like both time and space on her way to a tautly compelling conclusion. ...

From NEIL FISHER AND RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Colin Davis,  Karita Mattila,  Christoph Eschenbach

Semele at Royal Academy of Music, NW1

Semele is the lass who not only wants to enjoy a bit of nooky with Jupiter, but to have his immortal status as well. Her impertinence is her undoing; Jupiter’s wrathful spouse, Juno, sees to that. But not before Semele has hymned Jupiter’s bedroom ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Charles Mackerras

Why I'm dreaming of a German Christmas

Birmingham last Saturday was a tale of two cities. Much reported in Monday’s papers was the trouble at Millennium Point, where youngsters surged forward at a free council-run concert featuring the X Factor runners-up JLS. Temporary barriers proved ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Birmingham City FC,  British National Party,  UK Conservative Party

LibertyWeek 69: Feeding the World with Property Rights

Richard Morrison throws in with Jeremy Lott and William Yeatman to bring you Episode 69 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start by pigging out on swine flu statistics, putting off action on global warming and wagging our finger at a corrupt judge. We ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Openmarket.org,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Competitive Enterprise Institute,  Intel,  AMD

Rumpelstiltskin at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham

David Sawer’s new family-friendly entertainment, just 70 minutes long, is a marvellous hybrid. It isn’t an opera because nothing is sung — or indeed spoken. And although it uses six dancers alongside the 13 instrumentalists of the excellent ...

From RICHARD MORRISON, Times Online,  16 Nov 2009

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