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Alwyn: Concerti Grossi Nos 2 & 3; Seven Irish Tunes etc – review
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Lloyd-Jones (Naxos)No one would pretend that most of William Alwyn's music is anything other than light, but it is beautifully crafted and instantly engaging –...
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolStravinsky stated that "music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all". Yet he referred to the Symphony in Three Movements (1945) as a "war...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVasily Petrenko's Mahler cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, among the most consistently provocative of the major anniversary tributes, came to its close with a...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolThis was an important concert in that it allowed us an indication of Vasily Petrenko's progress as a Wagnerian. He and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic gave a complete...
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Giant puppet 'wakes up' in Liverpool for spectacular parade
The 50ft mechanical puppet, Little Girl Giant, will parade around the city this weekendThe long wait has ended; this morning a 50ft puppet 'woke up' in Stanley Park, Liverpool, and began parading...
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RLPO/Rivas – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVenezuela continues, it would seem, to turn out young musicians with astonishing potential. We are, of course, already familiar with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolPeter Maxwell Davies has been master of the Queen's music since 2004 and his Ninth Symphony, given its world premiere by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily...
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RLPO/Vasily Petrenko – review
Chester Cathedral Though associated with the broadest of repertories, Vasily Petrenko has only recently started to make his mark as a Brahmsian. Given in Chester Cathedral as part of the city's Summer...
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Ensemble 10/10; Scottish Ensemble; Edgar, New Sussex Opera – review
Epstein theatre, Liverpool; Wigmore Hall; Cadogan Hall, both LondonWith Liverpool FC playing a home match and the wet city streets busy with trick-or-treaters, Halloween may not have been the obvious...
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The Beggar's Opera – review
Epstein theatre, LiverpoolEven amid the Britten centenary celebrations, revivals of the Beggar's Opera remain thin on the ground. This small-scale production, by the European Opera Centre and the Royal...
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Vasily Petrenko extends RLPO contract
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra announces today the extension of Principal Conductor Vasily Petrenko's contract for another three years, a decision which will make him the second-longest...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolMahler's 10th Symphony was mysteriously absent from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's anniversary retrospective in 2010-2011, an omission now effectively – if belatedly –...
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Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko(Naxos)Shostakovich wrote the seventh and longest of his 15 symphonies in the summer of 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Not surprisingly,...
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RLPO/Dantone – review
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool"The final sin of my old age," is how Rossini described his Petite messe solennelle, a work with a reputation for quirkiness if ever there was one. The title is a famous...
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolShostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony is impossible to classify: part song-cycle, part secular rite for the dying, part hospital diary, it is without question one of the most...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVasily Petrenko's Mahler cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, among the most consistently provocative of the major anniversary tributes, came to its close with a...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolThis was an important concert in that it allowed us an indication of Vasily Petrenko's progress as a Wagnerian. He and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic gave a complete...
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Giant puppet 'wakes up' in Liverpool for spectacular parade
The 50ft mechanical puppet, Little Girl Giant, will parade around the city this weekendThe long wait has ended; this morning a 50ft puppet 'woke up' in Stanley Park, Liverpool, and began parading...
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RLPO/Rivas – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVenezuela continues, it would seem, to turn out young musicians with astonishing potential. We are, of course, already familiar with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar...
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RLPO/Petrenko – review
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolPeter Maxwell Davies has been master of the Queen's music since 2004 and his Ninth Symphony, given its world premiere by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily...
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