David Kettle
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Writer and editor, music and theatre, student, rarely here
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20 hours ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
Scottish Opera: Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct!, Theatre Royal, Glasgow ★★★Gilbert and Sullivan’s hopelessly out-of-touch duffer of a judge as a Bruce Forsyth-esque MC in a 1980s trial-by-TV reality show? Well, it makes a lot of sense in director John Savournin’s bright, breezy new production of Trial by Jury for Scottish Opera. And, crucially, Savournin’s updating provides a plausible distancing device for some of the one-act operetta’s more, let’s say dated humour.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
Ahead of her performances of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Yeol Eum Son talks to David Kettle about the demands of international touring, the importance of building musical relationships, and why playing with the SCO is ‘bliss’South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is fast becoming a familiar face in Scotland.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
, writes David KettleRSNO & Patrick Hahn, Usher Hall, Edinburgh ★★★★Death might seem an unlikely concert theme to draw a capacity crowd to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. When one of the evening’s works is Mozart’s lavish, legendary Requiem, however, that popularity is perhaps more understandable.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
BBC SSO, Anja Bihlmaier & Javier Perianes, City Halls, Glasgow ★★★★Four formidable women strode through the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s sometimes overwhelmingly powerful concert – well, five, if you also include conductor Anja Bihlmaier (and you really should), who was a fastidious but compelling presence throughout the evening’s three eclectic offerings.
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1 month ago |
scotsman.com | David Kettle
The SCO Chorus and Strings delivered a compelling, immediate performance of Sir James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words, writes David Kettle Of all Sir James MacMillan’s often deeply emotive music, his1993 Seven Last Words must count among his most viscerally powerful pieces – a sometimes raw, sometimes exquisitely beautiful reflection on the dying Christ’s final utterances on the Cross, from neo-Baroque radiance to muttering, chanting vocal urgency, and a concluding nod to MacMillan’s own...
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