Ivan Hewett
Classical Music Critic at The Telegraph
I write on music, and teach at the Royal College of Music. Opinions my own, naturally.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Ivan Hewett
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Mark Wigglesworth, Lighthouse Poole ★★★★☆Sometimes, an extraordinary performance leaves a trace in the audience’s applause, which actually sounds different. Wednesday night’s rendition of Britten’s violin concerto from the BSO and Clara-Jumi Kang was one such. The applause was certainly warm – it seemed to go on and on – but it also sounded stunned. Which is not surprising given the peculiar intensity of what we’d just heard.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Ivan Hewett
This wonderful concert from the Britten Sinfonia, Sinfonia Smith Square and the Choir of Merton College, Oxford was uplifting on two counts. It was another sign that the classical music world, reeling from the blows of Covid and the evident but never actually stated hostility of Arts Council England, hasn't lost its mojo.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Ivan Hewett
The notorious piano work Vexations by the smiling prankster of modern music Erik Satie is aptly named. What could be more vexing than to hear the same solemn procession of chords interspersed with a ghostly melody repeated 840 times, lasting up to 16 hours? More than vexed, I felt some trepidation. I was afraid Satie's ghostly, harmonically wavering piece - which usually takes between one and two minutes to play - would make me want to scream after one hour, let alone 16.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Ivan Hewett
The Proms is a musical world all to itself. Wander among the 86 concerts and you could encounter anything from Beethoven symphonies to little-known masterpieces of Renaissance church music to video games scores. And wandering is exactly what you should do. Try a big international orchestra playing a Mahler symphony, and for contrast a lone pianist playing Bach. Catch the big-name artists, look out for rising stars, give some of the almost two dozen brand-new pieces a try.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Ivan Hewett
The Proms is a musical world all to itself. Wander among the 86 concerts and you could encounter anything from Beethoven symphonies to little-known masterpieces of Renaissance church music to video games scores. And wandering is exactly what you should do. Try a big international orchestra playing a Mahler symphony, and for contrast a lone pianist playing Bach. Catch the big-name artists, look out for rising stars, give some of the almost two dozen brand-new pieces a try.
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Every time AI pops up uninvited to enlighten me on something I am astounded at how bad it is. Here is this morning’s gem; ‘Several Ballet Russes ballets can be described as neo-classical, including Apollo, The Firebird, Petrushka and the Rite of Spring’.
Is Alibhai-Brown really as naive as this suggests? Or is just faux-naiveté?
The solemn British paper, @telegraph runs a non-story about a train co painting a train in vivid, joyful colours. Quotes moany right wingers. Yeah. GB will roll over and die if a train is painted bright. How dull and small their world is.
staggering all-Schumann concert last night. So many masterpieces one after another. An immersion in a whole world of feeling. https://t.co/h0gC0edejy
