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On 24th and 25th April 2018, Tata Theatre audiences at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai had the distinct and rare opportunity of hearing not one nor two but all five piano concertos by Beethoven. We have to thank the NCPA who regularly partners with touring foreign orchestras
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It is not every day that we get to hear a piano giant who is a legend in his own lifetime. Born in 1960 to Irish parents in Belfast, Douglas studied piano at the Royal College of Music, London with a teacher whose lineage dates back to Liszt’s Weimar
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The Artie’s were back with a bang last month, arriving in India for four recitals in Mumbai and Pune as part of their 21st season of the bi-annual Festival. Most of the musicians have been here before including the outstanding Olivier Patey – principal clarinettist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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A 4 year old girl sits cross-legged on the floor with a photo album nestled in her lap. She pays no attention to the picture on the cover – a turquoise blue lake with snow white swans gracefully floating on it. She impatiently opens the album and winds up the tiny
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Robin Ticciati/Scottish Chamber Orchestra J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Copland: Clarinet Concerto Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ Maximilano Martín, clarinet 22 March 2018 Usher Hall, Edinburgh In what continues to be a sterling showcase of all of the talents in the Scottish
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Maxim Emelyanychev/Scottish Chamber Orchestra Dvořák Violin Concerto Josef Špaček, violin 15 March 2018 Usher Hall, Edinburgh Keeping with their emphasis on Antonín Dvořák this season, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra gave a sterling performance of his Violin Concerto in A minor at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. The concert also featured
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AMAN MAHAJAN – PIANO / NISHAD PANDEY – GUITAR ORIGINAL MUSIC FOR PIANO AND GUITAR Concert organised by Hyderabad Western Music Foundation (first of a series to celebrate the 10th year of HWMF) At Alliance Française Hyderabad on 3 March 2018 The concert was like a series of controlled conversations between two good
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Running up to the Spring 2018 Season of the Symphony Orchestra of India, the National Centre for the Performing Arts had no less than five orchestral concerts in the months of January and February 2018. On 14th January was the Martinů Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The next Sunday was the Bombay
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It was a privileged audience who was invited to one of the most delightful concerts of the season at the new auditorium of the Goethe Institut, now in Park Mansions Park Street. On an early Saturday evening, even with the traffic at its most frenetic state, who would have cared
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Children sorting rubbish in the freezing cold, teenage hawkers operating amidst traffic, homeless men and women huddling by the motorway: a walk down the Avenue de la Porte d’Aubervilliers does not readily suggest the world’s sixth wealthiest country. But this is the 19th arrondissement of Paris, home to
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This first edition of the SOTA festival that took place from January 2 – 6 2018 in Hyderabad is the brain child of local pianist, executive and artistic director, Timothy Marthand. It is the culmination of over 25 years of research and collaboration with renowned artists and an ongoing commitment to
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I first heard Milen Manoj, the genius Indian pianist, in his debut recital at the NCPA in April of this year. He impressed greatly in a varied recital which included the Appassionata sonata. He seemed to me then to have tremendous potential, but I hardly imagined the complete transformation that