Denmark
Zimmermann, LPO, Saraste, Royal Festival HallWednesday, 15 December 2010
If you've just come back from a taxing, tiring orchestral tour, as has the London Philharmonic, the last thing you want to face is a programme of four tough works which demand, at the very least, bright-eyed vigilance but more often a tense, finger-... Read more... |
Agnes Obel: PhilharmonicsWednesday, 27 October 2010
Although Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel has professed a kinship with Roy Orbison and his grand musical dramas, it’s John Cale that she covers on her debut album. Choosing the slow-burning “I Keep A Close Watch” from 1975’s Helen Of Troy (Cale... Read more... |
Hamlet, National TheatreFriday, 08 October 2010
The National Theatre’s new production of Hamlet is both a very good Hamlet, yet also a somehow disappointing one. For a work so rich in possibilities, with so much emotion, so much superb and intricate engineering, it is often like this, in England... Read more... |
Villazon refunds for his seven-minute concertWednesday, 18 August 2010It's come to light that the star tenor Rolando Villazón did the decent thing and refunded his fee after singing for only seven minutes at a concert in the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen 10 days ago.Norman Lebrecht reports that the management say that... Read more... |
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Dausgaard, Royal Albert HallThursday, 12 August 2010
This was the Prom I’d earmarked as the most unmissable event out of this year’s 76. Starry attraction was the century-overdue UK premiere of maverick-mystic Dane Rued Langgaard’s Music of the Spheres, born for this of all venues. But the meshing of... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Copenhagen: The Copenhagen Jazz FestivalSunday, 11 July 2010
It's Friday afternoon, the sun's beating down, and I'm kicking back with a cold one in Kongens Have, Copenhagen's oldest and most idyllic park. From the bandstand, the music of Duke Ellington falls mellifluously on my ears, the languorously swinging... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Los Angeles: Twilight in Tent CitySunday, 27 June 2010
The Los Angeles Film Festival would seem to have everything going for it. There's the perfect Californian weather, the vast number of stars who live and work in the city, and this year there’s been a glamorous new venue in downtown Los Angeles. The... Read more... |
Mukhtar's BirthdayWednesday, 19 May 2010In Denmark on 5 May a bus driver called Mukhtar had a birthday. He was in for a surprise when a flash mob of singers deliver a present. Read more... |
Valhalla RisingSunday, 25 April 2010
Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn has already displayed unsettling form as a filmmaker intimately acquainted with violence. His Pusher trilogy probed into the black heart of Denmark's criminal underworld, while Bronson surfed a monster wave of... Read more... |
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