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Category: Chamber Music

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  Beethoven Weekender at the Barbican review

  Beethoven Weekender “This could be the closest thing to heaven …. “. No not the Tears for Fears dirge from 2004 but one of the many fine singles from the vastly under-rated, and alas short-lived, Kane Gang from 1984. The KG, along with the magnificent Prefab Sprout, and the rather…

  April 14, 2020
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture London

  The Doric String Quartet at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Doric String Quartet Wigmore Hall, 22nd November 2019 Benjamin Britten – String Quartets No 1 in D Op 25, No 2 in C Op 36 and No 3 Op 94 All three Britten string quartets in one evening. Courtesy of the Doric String Quartet. Who have been working hard on…

  January 14, 2020
• Baroque Chamber Music Church Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture Italy London Naples Venice

  Pergolesi and Vivaldi: OAE at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Katherine Watson (soprano), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Zoe Brookshaw (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe), Choir of the Age of Enlightenment  Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11th November 2019 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) – Stabat Mater Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) – Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op.9 No.2 Antonio Vivaldi…

  December 6, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics London Opera

  London Sinfonietta and Tansy Davies at Kings Place review ****

  London Sinfonietta, Richard Baker (conductor), Tansy Davies (electronics), Elaine Mitchener (mezzo soprano), Elizabeth Burley (piano), Sound Intermedia Kings Place, 9th November 2019 Tansy Davies – Salt box (2005) Tansy Davies – Loophole and Lynchpins (2002-3) Naomi Pinnock – everything does change (2012) Tansy Davies – The rule is love (2019) Tansy Davies – grind show (electric) (2007) Tansy Davies –…

  December 5, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics Germany London

  Stockhausen chamber music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion), Marco Stroppa (sound design) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2nd June 2019 Karlheinz Stockhausen Zyklus for percussion Mantra for 2 pianos with 12 antique cymbals, woodblock & 2 ring modulators (and shortwave radio/tape)  I confess. I was defeated by the performance of Donnerstag aus Licht by…

  June 25, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture Enlightenment Germany London Opera Symphony

  Britten Sinfonia Beethoven cycle at the Barbican Hall review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades (conductor), Barbican Hall, 21st and 26th May 2019 Lawrence Power (viola) Eamonn Dougan (director) Jennifer France (soprano) Christianne Stotjin (alto) Ed Lyon (tenor) Matthew Rose (bass) Britten Sinfonia Voices Choir of Royal Holloway Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A majpor, Op 92 Gerald Barry –…

  June 10, 2019
• Amsterdam Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Mozart and Beethoven chamber music for winds at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Alexander Melnikov (piano), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn) Wigmore Hall, 31st March 2019 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio in B minor K540 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K452 Ludwig van Beethoven – Horn Sonata in F Op.…

  April 14, 2019
• Ballet Baroque Chamber Music Classical Music Concerto Culture London Neo-Classical Suite

  English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall review *****

  English Chamber Orchestra, Jessica Cottis (conductor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ben Goldscheider (horn) Cadogan Hall, 16th March 2019 Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31 Purcell/Britten – Suite of Six Songs from Orpheus Britannicus Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite I love Britten’s Serenade, first…

  April 3, 2019
• Baroque Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Suite Symphony

  Philippe Herreweghe and Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor),Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 21st February 2019 JS Bach – Orchestral Suite No.3 in D Mozart – Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 Mozart – Symphony No.41 (Jupiter)  A rare opportunity to hear modern instruments tackle some core Baroque and Classical orchestral repertoire in an HIP style,…

  March 11, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Piano trio and percussion at the Wigmore Hall review ***

  Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Inon Barnatan (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Owen Gunnell (percussion), Sam Walton (percussion) Wigmore Hall, 11th February 2019 Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 (arr. Eduard Steuermann for piano trio) Rolf Wallin – Realismos Mágicos Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony No.…

  February 27, 2019