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BBC Proms 3 September 2019 Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4, Bruckner Symphony No.7 Vienna Philharmonic, soloist: Emanuel Ax, conductor: Bernard Haitink Last year it was announced that Bernard Haitink was going to take a sabbatical. A sabbatical at 90? It turned […]
BBC Prom 20, August 3 2019 Violin Concerto and Symphony 5. J. Sibelius, violinist: Pekka Kuusisto, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard Where did Sibelius find the wonderful, hummable themes and melodies for his violin concerto and his fifth symphony? […]
Helene Schjerfbeck at the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Royal academy , London. On until 27 october 2019 How many Finns with an artistic bent can you mention? I don’t blame you if you can just think of two and at a […]
Belshazzar by Georg Friedrich Händel seen at The Grange Festival, Northington, UK, July 4, 2019 Bizarrely this is the first professional production of Händel’s oratorio Belshazzar (1744) in the UK. It is true that oratorios originally weren’t intended to be […]