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SEARCH powered by FreeFind         Articles, Interviews and Editorials A 20th Century Tower of Babel by Peter Grahame Woolf (September) Autumn/Winter Concert Preview 2001/2002- London FESTIVALS LUCERNE SUMMER FESTIVAL 2001 Part 1: Sound in Silence - the acoustics of the KKL Concert Hall at Lucerne (PGW) Part 2: Concerts 15-26 August (PGW) MONTREUX FESTIVAL 2001 Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro, Montreux Auditorium, September 7, 2001 (FC) Mozart, La Finta Giardiniera, Montreux Auditorium, September 1, 2001 (FC) Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans, Auditorium Montreux, August 31, 2001 (FC)   SCHUBERTIADE FESTIVAL 2001 Schwarzenberg, August 28th - 31st: Part One, the Festival and Schubert's "Winterreise" - Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen, Angelika - Kaufmann Saal, Tuesday August 28th   CONCERT REVIEWS SEPTEMBER 2001 PROM 72 & PROM 73: Verdi's Requiem & Last Night of the Proms, RAH, 14/15 September 2001 (MB) VERDI: Rigoletto, Opéra de Paris, September 13, 2001 (FC) Wigmore Hall 3rd International Song Competition Finals, Wigmore Hall, London 15 September 2001 (ME) & (PGW) GLUCK Orpheus & Eurydice ENO at Coliseum London 11 September 2001 (PGW) PROM 67: Schoenberg, Goehr and Vaughan Williams, Sanford Sylvan (narrator). Joan Rodgers (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia Chorus, Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin (CC).   Prom 65: Mahler Symphony No. 7 Augusta Read Thomas Aurora, for piano and chamber orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (CT) PROM 63: Wagner, Carter, Mahler, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, RAH, 7 September 2001 (MB) Matthias Goerne (Baritone) & Eric Schneider (Piano) Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 39, Kerner Lieder, Op. 35 Wigmore Hall, September 6th 2001. (M.E.) PROM 58: Prokofiev, Glière & Dvorák, Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkanazy, RAH, 3 September 2001 (CC) An Evening of Botanical Baroque Exhibition and Concert, Garden History Museum, London 1 September 2001 (PGW) AUGUST 2001 Britten: War Requiem, London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, Royal Festival Hall (ME) Britten: Rape of Lucretia, ENO & Aldeburgh, Summer 2001 (ME) Mathias Goerne & Alfred Brendel, London 2001 (ME) PROM 50: Wagner, Schoenberg & Scriabin, Alexander Toradze (piano), Vladimir Vaneev (bass), Crouch End Festival Chorus, Kirov Orchestra/Valery Gergiev, 28 August 2001 (CC) PROM 49: Takemitsu, Prokofiev & Shostakovich, Martha Argerich (pf), NHK Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (MB) PROM 47: Debussy, Martinu, Brahms Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, RAH, 25 August 2001 (CT) PROM 46: Schubert & Bruckner, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg, Gunther Wand, 24 August 2001 (MB) PROM 43: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1, 'Winter Daydreams' Lang Lang pf; St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov Wednesday 22 August, 2001 (SD) PROM 41: Bach, Stravinsky, Xenakis, Kenneth Hesketh,Hans Werner Henze 20th August 2001 Christopher Gillett tenor David Wilson-Johnson bass-baritone London Sinfonietta and London Sinfonietta Chorus conducted by Oliver Knussen (CT) Prom 35 Beethoven Fidelio. Soloists; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Sir Simon Rattle. Staging Deborah Warner. Thursday August 16th, 2001 (CC) Warwick and Leamington Festival July 2001 (CT) Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa PROM 28: Ruders, Lutoslawski, Sibelius. Evelyn Glennie, Gert Mortensen (percussion), BBC Philharmonic/Thomas Dausgaard. Royal Albert Hall, 10 August 2001 (CC) PROM 23: Wilson, Mozart, Pärt, Shostakovich, Nobuko Imai (Viola), Ulster Orchestra / Dmitry Sitkovetsky Vln/Cond, Royal Albert Hall August 6, 2001 (SD) Prom 18 - Bernstein, Bernstein (arr. William Brohn), Varèse, Ravel: Joshua Bell (vln), BBC Philharmonic / Jan Pascal Tortelier Royal Albert Hall, Friday August 3, 2001 (SD) PROM 16: Dvorák, Brahms, Mozart, R.Strauss, Renée Fleming (sop), Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, RAH, 1 August 2001 (MB) PROM 14: Stuart MacRae Premiere, RAH, 31 July 2001 (MB) JULY 2001 PROM 8: James Mac Millan Premiere, RAH, 26 July 2001 (MB) Eiko no Inochi (Beyond Brain Death): an opera by Shiho Fujimura and Kazuko Hara Tokyo Chamber Opera Theatre, QEH, 24 July 2001 (MB) Richard Strauss: Intermezzo, Garsington, July 2001 (H-T W) Messager: Fortunio, Grange Park Opera , July 2001 (H-T W) Verdi: Otello, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, July 2001 (H-T W) John CASKEN God's Liar Almeida Opera, Almeida at King's Cross, London, July 10 & 14, 2001 (PGW) JESSYE NORMAN with MARK MARKHAM Ravel, Brahms, Satie, Wolf, Copland. Wigmore Hall, 17 July 2001 (PGW) Rambert Dance Company 75th Anniversary. Sadler's Wells, 12-23 June 2001 (PGW) Jessye Norman: Schubert, Berg & Poulenc, Wigmore Hall, 13 July 2001 (MB) Second Biennial International Conference on Twetieth-Century Music Gold smiths' College 28 & 29 June 2001 (PGW) International Masterclass in 20th Century Composition and Music Week (PGW) Luis de Pablo, George Crumb, Sigfried Mauser, Peter Grahame Woolf, OENM, Salzburg/Gabriella de Esteban Bilbao, 2-6 July 2001 Britten The Rape of Lucretia ENO at The Coliseum 2-7 July 2001 (PGW) Vengerov & Virtuosi, RFH, June 29 2001 (MB) Simon Trpceski, Wigmore Hall Debut, 27 June 2001 (MB) Symphony Hall Tenth Anniversary Concert City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20 Stravinsky Suite, The Firebird (1945)  Janácek Sinfonietta (CT) Massenet, Manon, Opera de Paris, June 27, 2001 (FC) Front Page

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