Over forty years and in an impressive number of recordings, Peter Donohoe has never failed to challenge and surprise the listening public.
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Klaus Makela
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The Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä, just 28 years old, is the hottest property on the circuit though still unrecognised beyond the orchestra fishbowl. Mäkelä is presently music director in Oslo, Paris and Amsterdam. He is also (I hear) about to be named chief conductor in Chicago. How he balances all those jobs is anyone’s guess. Off stage, he has just ended a six-month relationship with the pianist Yuja Wang. The pair have concert bookings together for the next three years. That could be tricky when it comes to eye contact. Forget what they burble on the radio: classical music and…
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The flawless Skride is joined by violist Ivan Vukcevic and the orchestra of Vienna Radio, conducted by Marin Alsop.
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The flawless Skride is joined by violist Ivan Vukcevic and the orchestra of Vienna Radio, conducted by Marin Alsop.
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In the more sentimental pieces of the Prokofiev set on this new album, Bezhod Abduraimov melts the listener’s heart like spring snows.
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Spin this record of Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony played at a 1971 live concert at the Royal Albert Hall by the Leningrad Symphony and you will see what we are missing.
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In half a century of making records, Songs of Fate is Kremer’s most personal release – an austere and uplifting record imbued with humanity and idealism.
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I can’t listen to Francis Poulenc for long without imagining a Gitane between my lips and smoke curling out of the corners.
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The US jazz pianist Keith Jarrett does not play by the normal rules of engagement but this, even by his standards, is off the scale.
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The works on Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz’s album “Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral Works” are unfailingly agreeable, if not uniformly top-drawer.
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