Last Journal Entries
Royal Philharmonic and National Arts Centre Reviews
Alexander Shelley returned in mid-April to both the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London and long-time collaborators the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Shelley was joined by pianist Peter Jablonski in England, performing Rachmaninov’s Paganini Variations and by Lars Vogt in Canada, interpreting Mozart’s 24th Concerto. Both sets of concert received enthusiastic reviews. Of the London concert, Robert-Matthew-Walker wrote that “Shelley’s accounts of the Tchaikovsky and Rimsky were exemplary”, reminiscent of “Beecham’s commanding approach”. “All in all a memorable concert under an...
> read more> Leave a commentNuremberg Symphony present 2013-14 Season
Today Alexander Shelley and the Nuremberg Symphony present their programme for the coming season. A host of exciting new works, including a major commission and several Nuremberg premieres, stand alongside the stalwarts of the repertoire and compliment an enviable list of guest soloists. Clarinetist Sabine Meyer, organist Wayne Marshall, violinist Alexandra Soumm, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianists Louis Lortie and Michael Roll will all collaborate with Shelley throughout the season both in Nuremberg and on tour. The new series “Alexander Shelley meets...” will be inaugurated when Thilo...
> read more> Leave a comment440Hz and Tango
Now in it’s 7th season, the hugely successful “440hz” project continues this weekend in Düsseldorf. Conceived by Alexander Shelley, Eckart Schulze-Neuhoff (director of the Schumann Saal) and his colleague Ulla Baumeister, the series was designed back in 2005 to attract a younger audience to Classical music through a much more varied and stylistically daring set of programmes in conjunction with guest artists from completely different musical genres. As such the series has played host to musicians ranging from a-cappella vocalists Basta, the Wise Guys and Ensemble Six, to DJs Blank and Jones,...
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