Klarinet Archive - Posting 000086.txt from 2011/02

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay at Keswick
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:59:08 -0500

You missed a . after www in the wwwindependent link Lelia. By the way the
conductor at Keswick was the young Spaniard Eduardo Portal also excellent.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lelia Loban [mailto:lelialoban@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:43 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: [kl] Tony Pay at Keswick
>
>
> Peter Gentry wrote,
> > Last night Maggie and I attended a concert by The Orchestra of the Age
> of
> > Enlightenment at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, Cumbria , UK.
> >
> > The house was packed and the performances electric. Tony played the
> Weber
> > Concerto No 1 with great gusto and delicate phrasing you could hear a
> pin
> > drop and even though I know the piece well couldn't resist joining in
> the
> > ripple of applause after the cadenza.
> >
> > The evening finished with a dynamic account of Beethoven 7.
>
> This program is being performed four times. The one on Saturday, February
> 12, at the Anvil, Basingstoke at 7:45 p.m. GMT, will be streamed live on
> the
> Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's website at
> http://www.oae.co.uk/
>
> I've seen a couple of strongly positive online reviews of the February 8
> performance of this program at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
>
> Edward Seckerson, "Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Zinman, Queen
> Elizabeth Hall," The Independent,
> http://wwwindependent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/
>
> and
> Graham Rogers, "OAE / Zinman..." The Classical Source,
> http://www.classicalsource.com/
>
> Some of the musicians involved might take exception to the extravagant use
> of purple prose in these two reviews, but it's clear the critics loved the
> orchestra and Tony Pay's performance in particular. By the way, his
> excellent recording of the Weber Concerto no. 1 with the OAE (he conducted
> as well), along with the Crusell concerto no. 1, can be found in a Virgin
> Classics 2-CD set, 7243 5 61585 2 8.
>
> Lelia Loban
> http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/Lelia_Loban
>
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