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Read more about the article Transit Festival Review

Transit Festival Review

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:October 15, 2018
  • Post category:Concert Review
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Leuven’s Transit Festival came to a close last night with Jessie Marino’s bewilderingly Nice Guys Win Twice. Blurring the line between music, theatre and visual art one was left impressed by the means, even…

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Read more about the article Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Review of Opening Nights.

Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Review of Opening Nights.

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:July 28, 2017
  • Post category:Concert Review

The cast of Pterodactyls of Ptexas taking a bow. My arrival at the first night of Tête à Tête coincided with a pop-up performance of Samuel Bordoli’s Belongings, a work first performed on the Caledonian…

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Read more about the article Review: BBC National Orchestra of Wales Foundations Concert 1

Review: BBC National Orchestra of Wales Foundations Concert 1

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:October 19, 2016
  • Post category:Concert Review

It was splendid to see the BBC National Orchestra of Wales dedicate the first of their Welsh Foundations Concerts to the memory of Peter Reynolds, composer and biographer to this…

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Read more about the article Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis Review

Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis Review

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:March 9, 2016
  • Post category:Concert Review

In my teens I spent many a happy hour digging around in the Welsh Music Information Centre, a repository for scores and recordings of mostly recently written music from the…

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Read more about the article Konzerthaus, Freiburg and Gare du Nord, Basel

Konzerthaus, Freiburg and Gare du Nord, Basel

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:March 21, 2015
  • Post category:Concert Review
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Another couple of interesting concerts here in Basel. I say in Basel, but the first was actually in Germany. One of the curiosities of this city is that its suburbs…

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Read more about the article Arcomis International Brass Event Review

Arcomis International Brass Event Review

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:October 15, 2013
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‘The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.’ So it proved this weekend at Arcomis’s extraordinary International Brass Event in Cardiff. This is,…

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Read more about the article Peter Eötvös Total Immersion Day. The Barbican, 14th May 2011

Peter Eötvös Total Immersion Day. The Barbican, 14th May 2011

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:May 24, 2011
  • Post category:Concert Review
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14th May saw the latest in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Total Immersion’ days, this time dedicated to the music of Hungarian composer and conductor, Peter Eötvös. As usual on these…

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Read more about the article Unsuk Chin, Total Immersion (Barbican, 9th April)

Unsuk Chin, Total Immersion (Barbican, 9th April)

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:April 18, 2011
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I was lucky enough to get hold of the Unsuk Chin Total Immersion day before it disappeared from BBC iPlayer this weekend.  Four of her pieces from the event were…

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