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Seen Heard 1999 to 2002 Peter Grahame Woolf at 75 Today is the 75th birthday of Seen&Heard 's founder, Peter Grahame Woolf. Below we print a series of his reviews since 1999 ....... Three concert reviews from Antwerp February 2002 Copland, Prokofiev, Ravel LSO/ Han-Na Chang ... Pappano 7 March 2002 Crumb, Holst http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/three_reviews.htm WORDS, MUSIC AND COMPUTERS Peter Grahame Woolf Some reflections on Masterprize 2001, IANNIS XENAKIS (1922-2001), PETER EÖTVÖS at Strasbourg and Karlsruhe SCHUBERTIADE Myaskovsky/Carter/Poulenc Cello Sonatas : Lowri Records 2002 Hungarian Spring in London March-May 2002 Peter EOTVOS Madrigal Comedies Tomkins Vocal Ensemble ORPHEUS PRIZE 2002 - International Biennial Competition for Interpretation of cpntemporary music (Antwerp) http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Feb02/Orpheus_prize.htm HUNGARY IN FOCUS at Blackheath Halls July 2002 John CAGE, Peter EOTVOS , Lukas & Georgy LIGETI etc ) AMADINDA http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/Hungary.htm 10th Archipel Festival Geneva 2001 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2001/Apr01/archipel.htm EDITORIAL Making Live Music Pay Dawn Upshaw (soprano) WOLF, BARTOK, HINDEMITH, MAHLER & MUSSORGSKY OPERA IN EUROPE - FEBRUARY 2002 MONTEVERDI IL RITORNO D'ULISSE, Zurich LIEBERMANN MEDEA Paris http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/Oper_in_europe.htm Jonathan Carney & Kathron Sturrock St John's Smith Square 2002 Two fine musicians, www.musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2002/July02/ sturrock .htm PIANO CIRCUS Heiner Goebbels QEH March 2002 and CDs Transmission and Surrogate Cities Six Steinway grands, six energetic pianists and six composers http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/piano_circus.htm 48th Cork and 2002 Rhodes Festivals LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2002 OPERAS AND SINGERS June 2002 Stravinsky Oedipus Rex / Puccini Gianni Schicchi Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2002 in April, when (unaccountably) he was only Editorial December 2000 : Cheltenham International Festival of Music July 2002 Cheltenham's venerable music festival is now under Michael Berkeley's artistic direction http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/Cheltenham1.htm Youth Orchestras in UK and Spain La Vestale, A Masked Ball and The Elixir of Love ENO 11-13 April 2002 Three consecutive evenings at The Coliseum, http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Apr02/parenthesis.htm PotPourri - miscellaneous articles MUSIC AND COMPUTERS by Peter Grahame Woolf http://www.musicweb-international.com/pot.htm Alan Bush Violin Concerto http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Oct02/Bush_violin.htm Oliveira's Labirinto in Bourges and Portuguese contemporary music (PGW) ANDALORO'S PROGRESS London International Piano Competition 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Apr02/andaloro.htm OPERAS IN BERLIN CHERUBINI Médée MOZART The Marriage of Figaro, Die Entfuhrung . ARS MUSICA FESTIVAL 2002 March 7 - 24, Brussels http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/ars_march.htm MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea Trinity College of Music Opera Group http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/monteverdi_PGW.htm Welsh National Opera in London and Oxford (PGW) RAAGS OF THE RAIN (2) Buddhadev DasGupta and Rajan & Sajan Misra The eminent veteran sarod player .musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2002/July02/raags2.htm BRAHMS Sonata op.99; PROKOFIEV Sonata Op 119 Alexander Ivashkin (cello) February 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Feb02/Brahms_Ivashkin.htm Gerd KÜHR Stallerhof Lucerne Theatre November 2001-12 January 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2001/Dec01/kuhr.htm Hungarian Spring; Kurtag Festival April 2002... Four Kurtag events ... equally eminent compatriot Peter Eotvos http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Apr02/hs20.htm DOMINICK ARGENTO POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO Guildhall School of Music & Drama June 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/argento.htm VERDI Attila Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 11 a.m. Saturday 2 February 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Feb02/Verdi_Attila.htm CONCERTS at the BERLIN PHILHARMONIE May 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/bp.htm IAN PACE - piano, voice CARL ROSMAN - clarinets, voice, St Cyprian's Church http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Aug02/Pace_Oct8.htm Brian Elias, Hugh Wood, Debussy, Mozart, The Barbican 22 March 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Apr02/EliasPGW.htm YSAYE QUARTET Franck Beethoven Bach Wigmore Hall 16 June 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/Ysaye.htm MOZART Zaide Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Ivor Bolton http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/zaide.htm TextMusic - Ian Pace (piano and voice) with Carl Rosman (clarinet and voice... PIRES AND MACKERRAS at RFH 25 June 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/pires.htm thegoldensection Bridewell Hall, London http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/golden.htm London International Piano Competition, 6-16 April 2002 The Semi-Finals http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Apr02/PianocompPGW.htm ANGELA HEWITT (piano) at Wigmore Hall Bach, Couperin, Ravel with encores by... BEETHOVEN Op 70/1 & SMETANA Op 15 in G minor Gould Piano Trio Purcell Room... Jonathan Dove Flight Flemish Opera, Antwerp, 15 February 2002 Flanders http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Feb02/dove.htm RAAGS OF THE RAIN Uday Bhawalkar & Sunanda Sharma Purcell Room, July 2002 (PGW) In connection with their annual Summer School . http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/raags_rain.htm ENSEMBLE SAKURA Purcell Room, SBC, 28 Jan 2002 ... fertilisation of two cultures. http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Jan02/sakura.htm SONDHEIM Sweeney Todd Opera North at Sadler's Wells, London 15 June 2002 It was disquieting to find oneself disenchanted http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/sweeney.htm Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti,Chopin Andras Schiff (piano) Wigmore Hall,13 December 2001 &10 January 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Jan02/schiff.htm Knussen at 50 The London Sinfonietta 12 June 2002 Queen Elizabeth Hall http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/knussen50.htm Milhaud - Quatuor Parisii Milhaud_Quartets NEW GENERATION ARTISTS DAY Wigmore Hall, Sunday 14th July 2002 (PGW) Wolfgang Holzmair baritone Imogen Cooper piano Lieder by Robert & Clara BACH, HANDEL & MOZART The Academy of Ancient Music at St John's Smith Square, ., 6 February & 14 March 2002, with observations about singing competitions the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition of Belgium http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/belgium.htm Olli Mustonen Bach & Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Queen Elizabeth Hall... TOSHIO HOSOKAWA Vision of Lear and Portrait Concert, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera... URI CAINE ENSEMBLE Mahler Reimagined Purcell Room, London 9 February 2002 and on CD Uri Caine is an American pianist and prolific recording artist who spans the jazz and http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/caine.htm Carter, Knussen & Wigglesworth Claire Booth (soprano) Ryan Wigglesworth... R. MURRAY-SCHAFER 3rd String Quartet; Kevin VOLANS 6th String Quartet Duke Quartet. 10 March 2002, Blackheath Halls Collins Classics 14172.Seen&Heard http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/Murray-S.htm RZEWSKI & NOSFERATU The Warehouse, London, 7 February 2002 This was an extraordinary evening http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Feb02/rzewski.htm Luis de Pablo http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Oct02/pablo.htm A Wider Role for the Tenor Violin? Agnes Kory Trinity College of Music, Greenwich 2002 http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/kory.htm Holliger, Cutler, Saunders Wigmore hall 3 April 2000 MOZART Cosi fan tutte Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London Gerald BARRY Chamber Music & Johann STRAUSS Waltzes Hurlstone, Howells, Glinka, Weber, Martinu, Chopin, English Romantics Trio Blackheath Halls 3 March 2002 (PGW) http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Mar02/English_Romantics.htm The Mikado ENO, Mare's Nest SHO, The hHackney Chronicles LSCO http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2001/Dec01/3operas.htm Mussorgsky Khovanschina, Pictures, Rachmaninov Concerto 3 Pletnev April 2002 Royal Festival Hall (PGW) http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/May02/Musorgsky_Pletnev.htm SCHAFER and VOLANS STRING QUARTETS at Blackheath and on CD http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/Apr02/schafer.htm Poul RUDERS The Handmaid's Tale : CD Reviews - December 2000 . http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/dec00/ruders.htm BACH St John Passion in theatre, concert and on CD, with thoughts about other Passions and the Bachakademie .... Negativity - disappointments at South Bank Centre and Blackheath Halls (PGW) Janacek Sarka The Queen's Goodnight SIGNUM SIGCD020 [69.00] see also review by Peter Grahame Woolf http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Nov02/TheQueensGoodnight.htm CPE BACH Keyboard sonatas Cerasi METCD1032 http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/CPEBach.htm Tovey and Mackenzie Piano Concertos .. |