Tag Archives: Proms

Endnotes, September 2024

Posted on August 31, 2024 by leslie

Endnotes, September 2024 In this edition: The Man from the Sky; orchestral music by Gerard Schurmann; wood nymphs, country songs and planets at the Proms; two ‘lost’ works by Vaughan Williams, reviewed by Stuart Millson British composer Gerard Schurmann (1924-2020) … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, June 2024

Posted on May 28, 2024 by leslie

Endnotes, June 2024 In this edition: a farewell to Sir Andrew Davis; rare English works on the EM Records label; Nielsen from Bergen Sir Andrew Davis, British international conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto, Melbourne, Chicago and Royal … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, November 2021

Posted on October 31, 2021 by leslie

ENDNOTES, November 2021 A tribute to Bernard Haitink, KBE, CH, 1929-2021. Stuart Millson on one of the great conductors of our time – a renowned interpreter of the works of Bruckner and Mahler The recent death of Bernard Haitink – the legendary … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, 27th July 2016

Posted on July 28, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, 27th July 2016 In this edition: Three summer festivals – JAM on Romney Marsh * Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the BBC Proms * Brass, Welsh voices and the Royal Philharmonic at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff The lonely, low-lying landscape … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES – Stuart Millson on Domenico Barbaja, the Bel Canto Bully * Elgar, Bantock, Walton and Tchaikovsky at the Proms * A few old records revisited…

Posted on August 21, 2013 by leslie

ENDNOTES STUART MILLSON on Domenico Barbaja, the Bel Canto Bully * Elgar, Bantock, Walton and Tchaikovsky at the Proms * A few old records revisited… Without the influence of the domineering Italian – or more correctly, Milanese/Neapolitan, impresario, Domenico Barbaja … Continue reading →

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