Reviews by John Dunston
Smorgaschord Festival 2022
John Dunston
Saturday 18 June, New College Chapel George Xiaoyuan Fu, piano Drupadhamar – Kirit Singh and Jasdeep Singh Echéa Quartet with John Myerscough, cello The second SmorgasChord festival, ...
10 days ago
Smorgaschord Festival 2022
Ana Bursac, Piano
John Dunston
Serbian-born pianist Ana Bursac, now a multiple international competition prize winner, made a welcome return to Harris Manchester College to give a recital on the newly-refurbished Steinway grand. ...
a month ago
Ana Bursac, Piano
Viv McLean
John Dunston
As if the demands of this imaginative programme were not enough, the recitalist in the second concert of the SJE Arts International Piano Series also had to cope with a persistently irritating, yet ...
4 months ago
Viv McLean
Ana Bursac in Concert
John Dunston
This recital was a long time in the making, but more than justified the patience of all who were fortunate enough to have heard it. Harris Manchester College had first invited Ana Bursac to perform ...
5 months ago
Ana Bursac in Concert
Oxford Lieder Festival: A Schumanniade
John Dunston
Sophie Karthäuser, soprano Stephan Loges, bass-baritone Eugene Asti, piano James Way, tenor Natalie Burch, piano The great accompanist Gerald Moore was fond of recounting the moment ...
9 months ago
Oxford Lieder Festival: A Schumanniade
Oxford Lieder Festival: Hark, Hark! The Lark
John Dunston
Ailish Tynan, soprano; Ian Wilson, recorder; Libby Burgess, piano It was billed as “A homage to birds in music” by the Oxford Lieder Festival. Hark! Hark! The Lark was certainly that, but ...
9 months ago
Oxford Lieder Festival: Hark, Hark! The Lark
Oxford Lieder Festival: The Wanderer
John Dunston
A review of three events at the Oxford Lieder Festival: Wandering Winter Poets; Heine, Schumann & Brahms; and The Wanderer (October 12th, 2021)
Every performance of Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.24 ...
9 months ago
Oxford Lieder Festival: The Wanderer
Oxford Lieder Festival: Songs and Moods
John Dunston
It would be difficult, after twenty such successful years, for any individual recital to be regarded as the Oxford Lieder Festival 'at its best', but 'Songs and Moods' at St John the Evangelist must ...
9 months ago
Oxford Lieder Festival: Songs and Moods
Twelfth Night
John Dunston
If you’re seeking a play for today, look no further than Twelfth Night. And as an antidote to the trials and tribulations of the past eighteen months, Tomahawk Theatre’s sparkling production was ...
a year ago
Twelfth Night
OSJ Summer Festival 2021
John Dunston
Carmina Burana, SJE Arts on 26 June 2021
The universal popularity of Carmina Burana (1935/6) has not quite made its composer, Carl Orff, a one-hit wonder, his creative work encompassing many genres ...
a year ago
OSJ Summer Festival 2021
Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Crown (La Corona)
John Dunston
Bampton Classical Opera’s concert performance of Gluck’s La corona reminded us of the enduring relevance and adaptability of those Greek myths. And what inadvertently apt timing it was for a work ...
a year ago
Christoph Willibald Gluck: The Crown (La Corona)
Lunchtime Recitals
John Dunston
Baroque lute recital by John Reeve, ' The Elegy of the French Lute: The music of Robert de Visée' , 29 April 2021 There was an almost surreal quality to this recital on the baroque lute by John ...
a year ago
Lunchtime Recitals
Lunchtime Recitals
John Dunston
Piano recital by Ana Bursac, 11 February 2021
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 11
Online from the synagogue of Novi Sad, Serbia
Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 11, written between ...
a year ago
Lunchtime Recitals
