Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺

Mad about classical music & opera.
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[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

@verdur_in Omg, was it all AI?!😲 I thought they were actors and was wondering why there were no credits for the cast. I feel cheated now!

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

A lovely discovery today was Chaminade’s Callirhoë Suite. What a gorgeous piece–compact yet in four movements, strikingly symphonic.
She clearly had the talent for larger-scale writing. One wonders what more she might have done with the same opportunities as male composers.

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

I’m “Elgared out” after a double bill today: his beautiful Cello Concerto with Philharmonia/Benedetti/Măcelaru, followed by my first Dream of Gerontius with LSO/Pappano this evening.

Enjoyed Gerontius but really wished for surtitles–too dark to follow the text in the programme!

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

@Stephen74977713 @londonsymphony Oh no, I missed you again!
It was my very first Dream of Gerontius. I really enjoyed it, but wished surtitles had been provided. It was too dark for the audience to follow the text in the programme!

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

@Stephen74977713 @londonsymphony I was there too! The Korngold, though beautifully performed, was a little "too Hollywood" for my taste. But Shosta 5 was totally exhilarating!

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Full fan-girl mode for Jennifer Johnston at the WH. My cheeks hurt from grinning like an idiot all evening!
That rich, velvety, chesty voice of hers, w/ clear diction & emotional depth, makes her my favourite Mahler singer. Of course anything she sings sounds utterly sumptuous!

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Gosh, it’s a nerdy week for me…
From a Wagnerian coming-of age (Siegfried) to Mahler’s Resurrection with the Philharmonia & Kent Nagano.
Me, confidently humming what I thought was Mahler on the way home – only to realise it’s still that leitmotif from Siegfried, gah! 😄

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

@RichardBratby Are you reviewing?

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Back at @wigmore_hall for a treat of a concert with one of my favourite violinists in the world: James Ehnes, with Andrew Armstrong. 🥰
Adored the Elgar, the bluesy Ravel left me breathless, and the fun encores James jokingly called the “dessert menu” were the cherry on top! 🍒

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Joshua Bell was on 🔥 at Wigmore Hall with a fabulous programme!
I only knew Grieg for his Piano Concerto; I had no idea he’d written violin sonatas. I LOVED the stormy yet tender Violin Sonata No.3 – now inspired to explore more of his music!Gorgeous Schubert and Prokofiev too.

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Mahler’s unfinished Tenth last night (LPO/Jurowski) resonated deep within. My heart thumped with every drumbeat of the finale; breath forgotten! A single tear at the flute solo.
Mahler’s whispered “Almschi” for anyone who has known love and loss.
https://t.co/prKAIepTfz

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

So good to see Simon Rattle on top form after his cancelled Proms appearance last summer. The BRSO really is the “Rolls Royce” of orchestras! 👏 Bruckner’s 7th was sublime, w/ that gorgeous Wagnerian Adagio — echoes of Valhalla! I loved the searing drama in Janáček’s Taras Bulba!

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Another fab evening: James Ehnes in an astonishing performance of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata with @LPOrchestra & Ed Gardner. Thunderous applause!
I couldn’t love Ehnes more — that gorgeous tone from his Stradivarius is magical! His Bach Partita No. 3 encore moved me to tears. 🥹

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Kian Soltani & Benjamin Grosvenor at the Wigmore Hall – a spectacular collaboration between two of my favourite musicians! Five stars for virtuosity, creativity, a well thought-out programme & so much warmth and humour.
My heart nearly burst during César Franck's Sonata in A! ♥️

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Applause, booing, and many empty seats marked RBO’s opening of The Makropulos Case. More versed in Katie Mitchell than Janáček, I’d say: opera purists may bristle, but Mitchell devotees will recognise her signature blend of bold feminism and multimedia.
Critics will be divided.

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

“…more akin to the contemporary gilded canvases of Klimt in a deliquescence of musical gesture, as notes inexorably [dissolve into] silence.”

I love reading reviews that feel as inspired – and as inspirational – as the performance itself! 💕

#Mahler9 #BBCSO #SakariOramo

[Bachtrack @bachtrack]

Choose life: Oramo's Mahler 9 leaves death for the last page @BBCSO
✍️ Peter Quantrill
https://t.co/Ws0ICO8MKX

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

Oh my heart... Mahler 9 with Berlin Phil and Kirill Petrenko online! ♥️

[Berliner Philharmoniker @BerlinPhil]

🎶 On our tour programme this week: Mahler's Symphony No. 9! https://t.co/OFL9ywHgDg If you can't catch us in Salzburg, Lucerne, Paris, and Luxembourg, enjoy the complete May 2025 performance in the Digital Concert Hall.

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

@acorbettn Agree, sadly. Glad I’m not the only one that felt a bit meh about it… I enjoyed BBCSO & Oramo’s Mahler 4 in April far more.

[Chie Nakano 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇪🇺 @MidlifeCoach121]

.@duolingo just *forced* me to sign up for a free trial of Duolingo Super Family by not giving me an option to say no and continue my lessons! Does anyone know how to cancel it? In real life as in an app, not being given the choice to say 'no' is called coercion! 😡

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

An Israeli conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov has been arrested at a protest near the Israel-Gaza border.

Last week, a clip of him at the Royal Albert Hall condemning Israel’s actions in the almost two-year long war in Gaza went viral.