Edward Seckerson
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- Bio
- Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years.
Articles by Edward Seckerson
Kim, London Symphony Orchestra, Schuldt/Gardiner, Barbican Hall
Friday, 30 November 2012
Any young composer who finds himself at the opposite end of a programme from Walton’s First Symphony had better be good. Edward Nesbit - whose piece Parallels was commissioned by the LSO Panufnik... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: The Baltic Youth Philharmonic
Sunday, 04 November 2012
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic (founded in 2008) is part of a much larger and bolder enterprise embracing the 10 nation states bordering the Baltic Sea. At a time of financial duress when governments... Read more... |
Tetzlaff, LPO, Vänskä, Royal Festival Hall
Thursday, 01 November 2012
Some symphonies are natural curtain-raisers: Sibelius’ Third is one. Music began with rhythm and in this piece the cellos are the distant drummers who bring us back to basics with their curt... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: The Elias String Quartet
Sunday, 14 October 2012
The vibrant Elias String Quartet are 14 years young, well established, and well respected on the international scene. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and recipients of a Borletti-Buitoni... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes
Sunday, 07 October 2012
Over the next four seasons the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will be embarking upon a “Beethoven Journey” that will clock up 150 performances in 55 cities all over the world. At the heart of... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: John Wilson on Rodgers and Hammerstein
Sunday, 30 September 2012
John Wilson Orchestra’s stunning 2010 Prom celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein was as close as those who heard it could imagine to being guests on the 20th Century Fox soundstage c. 1955... the... Read more... |
BBC Proms: Vienna Philharmonic, Haitink
Saturday, 08 September 2012
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra can play Haydn’s last symphony - No 104 “London” - in its sleep but that is not, I hasten to add, the impression one wants to take away from any performance of it... Read more... |
Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Philharmonia Orchestra, Salonen, Royal Festival Hall
Friday, 04 November 2011
Sometimes the most disturbing images exist only in our imaginations - and so the questions posed in the preface to Bartók’s operatic masterpiece Duke Bluebeard’s Castle become especially pertinent: “... Read more... |
Ax, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jurowski, Royal Festival Hall
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Send in the clowns. Or at least that was Vladimir Jurowski’s musical thinking in bringing together the mighty foursome of Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Haydn and Shostakovich and seeing just how far their... Read more... |
Khachatryan, London Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev, Barbican Hall
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Valery Gergiev’s survey of the Tchaikovsky symphonies began here on a chilly January night with youthfully idealistic Winter Daydreams thrown into the sharpest relief against a disillusioned and... Read more... |
Hardenberger, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nelsons, Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 08 December 2010
The heroics came fast and fervently with Andris Nelsons and the Philharmonia Orchestra emerging from suffocating pianissimi to rip out the exultant fanfares of Beethoven’s Leonora No 3 Overture as if... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Philanthropist Ian Rosenblatt
Saturday, 20 November 2010
It has been said that making money is music to the ears of any entrepreneur. In the case of Ian Rosenblatt you might need to turn that concept on its head. The music itself is his passion and the... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Composer Dario Marianelli
Saturday, 06 November 2010
Dario Marianelli won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his score for the movie Atonement, and his return to the theatre after a long absence as composer for the Young Vic's new production of Tennessee... Read more... |
Songs from a Hotel Bedroom, Linbury Studio
Friday, 05 November 2010
Where has this idea come from that Kurt Weill somehow lost his edge or, worse yet, sold out when he headed Stateside? Have the people who perpetrate this nonsense actually heard the Broadway shows?... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Director Rufus Norris
Thursday, 04 November 2010
In 2001 Rufus Norris cleaned up on the awards front with his stunning production of Festen, the David Eldridge adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg's disturbing film which started life at the Almeida... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Conductor John Wilson
Saturday, 30 October 2010
John Wilson and the orchestra which bears his name created an absolute sensation at the 2009 Proms with their celebration of 75 years of MGM musicals. A total of 3.5 million people watched the... Read more... |
How to contact Edward Seckerson
- personal website
- http://www.edwardseckerson.biz
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