Gala Concert St Petersburg

This 2003 concert marking the city’s 300th anniversary may have been fun to be at, but is hopeless for home listening, with bows and entrances seeming to take up most of the time. Michael Tanner

 

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2

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:30 pm

COMPOSERS: Donizetti,Puccini,Ravel,Saint-Saens,Shostakovich etc
LABELS: EuroArts
WORKS: Works by Donizetti, Puccini, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich etc
PERFORMER: Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Misha Maisky; St Petersburg PO/ Yuri Temirkanov, Nikolai Alekseev
CATALOGUE NO: 2053408

This 2003 concert marking the city’s 300th anniversary may have been fun to be at, but is hopeless for home listening, with bows and entrances seeming to take up most of the time. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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