Classical music + Live music reviews
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BBC Total Immersion Day: Philip Glass at 80 review – variety, sheer difficulty and lots of arpeggios
BBC Total Immersion Day: Philip Glass at 80 review – variety, sheer difficulty and lots of arpeggios
Marin Alsop, the BBC Singers and others wished Glass a happy 80th with a career-spanning programme of his best and most challenging work -
St Petersburg Phil / Temirkanov review – low-key but faultless ShostakovichYuri Temirkanov led a measured performance of Shostakovich’s Fifth, while pianist Martha Argerich dazzled with Prokofiev
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The Snow Maiden; Luca Buratto review – old Russian, new ItalianOpera North delivers folklore in a factory in a rare staging of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden
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Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – beautifully engineered all-Soviet programmeProkofiev was paired with Shostakovich on a night when Kirill Karabits brought out the full tragic power of the latter’s Eight symphony
Philharmonia/Salonen review – inventive energy animates Tansy Davies premiere