Robert Beale
Classical Music Writer at The Arts Desk
Classical Music Writer at Freelance
Classical Music Writer at Theatre Reviews North
Classical music writer @theartsdesk, @TRNreviews, https://t.co/OYuetTTrNW https://t.co/aRVLgDYJVU - my views.
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Mahler's Ninth, BBC Philharmonic, Gamzou, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - vision and intensity
1 week ago |
theartsdesk.com | Robert Beale
There was a change of conductor from the one advertised for this BBC Philharmonic performance at the Bridgewater Hall – but the one who we heard from was an interpreter of extraordinary vision and intensity. Yoel Gamzou is also a composer in his own right, and a Mahler specialist, it would seem: he’s made his own completion of the Tenth Symphony, so he’s no doubt as aware of the language and creative imagination of that other composer-conductor as anyone.
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1 week ago |
theartsdesk.com | Robert Beale
Kahchun Wong returned to the symphony with which he made his first big impression conducting the Hallé – and made a big impression with it again. The evening in February 2023 when he conducted Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony was his first concert with them, and it has to be said he was a relative unknown to many of the audience listening then and probably to most UK classical music fans.
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2 weeks ago |
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Robert Beale
Mike LeighRoyal Exchange Theatre Company, directed by Natalie AbrahamiRoyal Exchange Theatre, Manchester4 April - 24 May, 2025: 2 hours 20 minutesMike Leigh’s window on the world of late 1970s suburban life has been brought Up North by Natalie Abrahami and the Royal Exchange Theatre Company. That works beautifully: it’s every bit as funny as we’ve seen before. Subtle it ain’t. Abigail’s Party was first performed in 1977 and is set in precisely that era, in Essex.
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3 weeks ago |
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Robert Beale
Myfanwy Piper and Benjamin Britten, after Henry JamesRoyal Northern College of MusicRNCM Manchester30 March - 5 April, 2025: 2 hoursRemaining performances on 3 and 5 AprilIt’s hard to like Owen Wingrave very much. It’s known as Britten’s “pacifist” opera – based on a story by Henry James (as The Turn of the Screw was, also adapted by Myfanwy Piper), but with rather less mystery and rather more abstract discussion.
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3 weeks ago |
theartsdesk.com | Robert Beale
It’s quite ironic that the Royal Northern College of Music should have invited, as director of this, Britten’s avowedly pacifist opera, Orpha Phelan – whose version of his Billy Budd for Opera North nearly 10 years ago contained one of the most thrilling battle scenes ever staged. And, in her presentation of Owen Wingrave, war is not merely talked about, but seen.
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Rewarding and thrilling: Thomas Adès conducts the Hallé. Review: Manchester Classical Music https://t.co/mPRGAavHRG