Hints and tips:
...The stage (Chloe Lamford) is mostly dark with stark lighting (James Farncombe) piercing the gloom and periodic downpours of fine dust....
...Lupu recast Schumann’s capricious lines as a reverie in myriad shades of mezzo-piano....
...But in the context of Sunday’s Schumann and Beethoven programme, they made perfect sense....
...But the excellent vocal group Exaudi and its director, James Weeks, decided to go for broke by inviting electronics expert Russell Haswell to create an accompanying sonic meltdown....
...Brahms calls on Schumann in Düsseldorf and Schumann goes mad....
...Isserlis has also commissioned a song cycle for voice and cello from British composer James Francis Brown, to be premiered next year at London’s Wigmore Hall....
...The company’s principal dancers Hélène Bouchet and Silvia Azzoni share the role of the fatal sylph, who comes to the Scottish nobleman James (Thiago Bordin, Alexandre Riabko) in a dream the night before...
...Thank you, Robert Schumann. And you did. You were speaking of Kinderszenen....
...The ONL programme, on August 27, will feature Berlioz’s Rêverie et Caprice alongside works by Mendelssohn and Schumann....
...The narrator’s musings lack the coherent, panoramic historical fictions of, say, Janice Galloway’s Clara (Schumann) or Andrew Miller’s Casanova....
...Last month he juxtaposed Varese, Webern and Scelsi with a spatially conceived piece by James Tenney and a saxophone imp-rovisation....
...James Crabbe, the soloist, sounded expert in all the demands the concerto placed on him....
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