Oct
2009
Articles from 27th Oct 2009
-
Birmingham Bach Choir at the Symphony Hall
Oct 27 2009 | Music
On Saturday the Birmingham Bach Choir performed it in Robert Levin’s completion, cluttered and flashy, with dross which if it ever had been in Mozart’s wastepaper-basket, that fastidious composer would never have allowed to reappear. The farcical Dona Nobis Pacem sums up my case. Read
-
Roderick Williams at The Artrix, Bromsgrove
Oct 27 2009 | Music
You could read huge significance into the fact that Elgar never set any of the much-loved poetry of his great contemporary and fellow Worcestershire lad, A.E. Housman. Read
-
Birmingham Festival Choral Society at Birmingham Town Hall
Oct 27 2009 | Music
The programme notes promised us a performance of “Handel’s forgotten gem”. Historic musical gems have usually been forgotten for a good reason; examined closely they turn out to be paste. This is true of Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt which for long stretches sounds as if he was operating on the creative equivalent of autopilot. Read
