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6 Jan 2009:
Wigmore Hall, London
Williams is an exceptional Mendelssohn interpreter - sensitive, astute and incisive, says Tim Ashley -
5 Jan 2009:
Barbican, London
The playing gloriously combined technical rigour with expressive immediacy, says Tim Ashley -
20 Dec 2008:
Barbican, London
Best of all was the First Piano Concerto, says Tim Ashley, that blended noble, titanic ferocity with overwhelming tenderness -
16 Dec 2008:
Royal Festival Hall, London
Jurowski takes a while to generate the requisite sense of narcotic irrationality, says Tim Ashley -
13 Dec 2008:
Town Hall, Leeds
The playing is sensational says Tim Ashley -
12 Dec 2008:
Royal Opera House, London
Some of the kids sitting near me on opening night were genuinely terrified, says Tim Ashley -
12 Dec 2008:
Stylised treatment of the chorus lends the piece some of the dreadful implacability of Greek tragedy
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12 Dec 2008:
The production analyses the work's questionable ideology in terms of the rotten values of the German bourgeoisie
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12 Dec 2008:
Philippe Jordan conducts a thoughtful, low-key interpretation, which is sometimes at odds with McVicar's brutalist visuals
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Wagner: Die Walküre; Johansson/Westbroek/Paasikivi/Gambill/White/Petrenko/Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle
12 Dec 2008:
A staging castigated as static has been transformed into a riveting display of clashing psyches and raw emotions
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12 Dec 2008:
This performance of the Brahms is among the most searching and profound that I know, says Tim Ashley
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12 Dec 2008:
Benjamin Lazar's production stays just the right side of both camp and morbidity. An acquired taste, but beautifully done
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4 Dec 2008:
Royal Festival Hall, London Pride of place went to a glorious performance of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto
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27 Nov 2008:
Royal Opera House, London Rolando Villazón has been erratic of late, though this is unquestionably one of his finest achievements, says Tim Ashley
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26 Nov 2008:
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Vasily Petrenko conducts with his usual hip-swivelling elegance and bags of panache
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