Jessica Duchen
Classical music critic, author, librettist. MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE out now and available from kahnandaverill.co.uk/product/myra-hess-n…
- Going to Guernsey on Saturday! Never been before. Very much looking forward to seeing it, and to talking about Bartók & Duke Bluebeard's Castle ahead of London Singers' Collective performance. www.visitguernsey.com/experiences/...
- Tonight at 7pm I’m talking Clara Schumann for Lockdown University, free online to everyone everywhere. www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/295...
- This is tomorrow! www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/13968...
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- This is nice! Thank you a thousand times, @prestomusic.bsky.social 🙏❤️🎶🎹🥳
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- I wrote about it why Roxanna Panufnik and I are going head to head with Handel’s Messiah. Come and hear the result on Sunday at Symphony Hall Birmingham! inews.co.uk/culture/arts...
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- Erich Wolfgang Korngold died on 29 November 1957, aged 60. Heads-up to planners: he has two big round number anniversaries in '27. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCe...
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- Reposted by Jessica DuchenNew York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
- So excited to hear this at last! A very special composer who carried a complex, startling story.
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- Reposted by Jessica Duchen‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’
- Tonight it's WAGNER'S WOMEN for the Wagner Society of Scotland, in cyberspace - please log on at 6.30pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...
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- In case you'd like to hear WAGNER'S WOMEN but couldn't make it to the London Singers' Collective evening at National Opera Studio yesterday, I have a short-notice repeat run tomorrow, >online< at 6.30pm, for the Wagner Society of Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...
- (The true function of a libretto!)
- Quick reminder to Wagnerites that we are doing this at the National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, tonight... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
- Reposted by Jessica DuchenNowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
- Looking forward to talking WAGNER on Friday! With music from soprano Valerija Iljin and pianist Daniel Silcock, at the National Opera Studio. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
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- We need to listen to musicians, not tell them to ‘shut up and play’, and here’s why. inews.co.uk/culture/arts...
- Looking forward enormously to doing a little Wagner evening...I'll be talking about Wagner's musical cauldron and the soprano Valerija Iljin sings extracts from Senta, Elisabeth, Sieglinde and the Wesendonck Lieder. 14 Nov, National Opera Studio www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wagners-wo...
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- Off to @wigmore_hall to hear @fhvln and @MartinRoscoe1 strut some formidable stuff tonight. And fortunately it takes my mind off packing for tomorrow (I love being in new places, but hate having to get there…).
- Coming up on Friday: Lara Melda and I tell the story of Myra Hess in the National Gallery, in, what else, a lunchtime concert. We will be in the same space she used, Room 36! Admission freeeeee. Please join us! www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
- TONIGHT! Hear Myra Hess play, as the Musical Museum and the Player Piano Group hold an evening devoted to her Duo-Art piano rolls. www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/event/myra-h...
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- Update on my article re Ilan Volkov: it is in the printed paper today, but very heavily cut, so please read the online one if you can.
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- Wondering if I could become a tube driver, double my income and reduce my working hours to the manageable level of 35 hrs a week. I’ve left it a little bit late, but am quite good at tunnel vision.
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- Doing an actual National Gallery lunchtime concert with the wonderful Lara Melda! 10 October, anniversary of Myra Hess’s first concert there in 1939. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...
- Just been live on Danish Radio, talking Proms, rather to the amusement of Tom who’s the one who actually speaks Danish.
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- Cosi is listening to Schumann Lieder…
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- Nice gig for home team LPO last night at Proms. Aigul Akhmetshina heavenly in Ravel and Ed Gardner delivering Tippett’s Rose Lake swan song with great affection.
- #nowlistening to Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's complete Ravel piano music. Utterly gorgeous. Has everything you could want: clarity, sensuality, brilliance of touch, rich sonority and magnificently evoked narrative atmosphere. Gaspard in particular is a treat and a half. music.apple.com/gb/album/rav...
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- This is what happened to Unbound, in detail. For those of us who published with them, loved our excellent editors and even enjoyed finding, er, novel ways to crowdfund, it's tragic. observer.co.uk/news/busines...
- Last night’s Prom: so delicious I wanted to eat it. inews.co.uk/culture/arts...
- Boo to Bolero, tut-tut to Tchaikovsky and don't get me started on Bruckner...oh OK, do... www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
- Off to the Proms for the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer - small matters of Beethoven 7 & Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle 😻🎶
- !! Yunchan Lim played ‘Schönste Nacht’ from ‘Die stumme Serenade’ by Korngold as his Proms encore the other day and I have just twigged and heard it and came over a bit wobbly. ❤️🎶🥲
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- Calling all Myra Hess fans: I'm doing a free lecture about her online tomorrow, Monday 4th, for MILIM Leeds. Starts 8pm UK time. Log on here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- A rare staging of Korngold’s one-act psychological thriller ‘Violanta’ ahoy.
- My Korngold talk starts in 15 mins. 7pm UK time. Available to log on free everywhere, as far as I know.🎶 www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/260...
