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Category: Classical Music

• Church Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Barbican Hall review ***

  London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, Camilla Tilling (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone) Barbican Hall, 20th May 2018 Beethoven – Missa Solemnis Hard to believe that the scruffy scrawl above is from the hand of the greatest ever composer in one of…

  May 28, 2018
• Amsterdam Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture

  Christoph Sietzen and the Wave Quartet at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Christoph Sietzen, Wave Quartet (Bogdan Bacanu, Vladi Petrov, Emiko Uchiyama, Christoph Sietzen) Het Concert-Gebouw, Recital Hall, 16th May 2018 Emmanuel Séjourné – Attraction for marimba, vibraphone and tape Iannis Xenakis – Part B (from ‘Rebonds’) for percussion J.S. Bach/Brahms – Chaconne (from Second Partita in D, BWV 1004) (arr. B.…

  May 28, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Spira Mirabilis at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Spira Mirabilis Queen Elizabeth Hall, 15th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 Spira Mirabilis is a group of talented young musicians from around the world who play in various European orchestras. They hole up in Formigine in Northern Italy near Bologna to learn from each…

  May 27, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Ligeti in Wonderland at the South Bank review *****

  Ligeti in Wonderland Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, 11th, 12th and 13th May 2018 Pierre–Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn), Daniel Ciampollini (percussion) Ligeti – Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes, Ligeti – 3 pieces for 2 pianos (Monument, Selbstportrat, Bewegubg), Ligeti – Trio…

  May 23, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican review ***/***

  Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Barbican Hall, 2nd May and 4th May 2018 Esa-Pekka Salonen – Pollux Edgar Varese – Ameriques Shostakovich – Symphony No 5 Beethoven – Symphony No 9 “Choral” Canny students of architecture will realise that the pic above is not of the Barbican. The…

  May 7, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Shostakovich from the Philharmonia and Ashkenazy review ****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), James Ehnes (violin) Royal Festival Hall, 29th April 2018 Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor, Op.77 Symphony no. 4 in C minor, Op.43 Apparently Vladimir Ashkenazy was at the premiere of the Fourth Symphony. In 1961, in Moscow, 25 years after it…

  May 7, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Stravinsky, Debussy and Shostakovich: LPO and Leif Ove Andsnes at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 18th April 2018 Stravinsky – Symphony in C, Stravinsky – Tango arr. for orchestra Debussy – Fantaisie for piano and orchestra Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 54 I am pretty confident that no-one reads…

  April 29, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Bach: The Late Concertos from the Feinstein Ensemble at Kings Place review ****

  The Feinstein Ensemble, Catherine Mason, Miki Takahashi, Sarah Moffatt (violins), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), Martin Feinstein (flute, director) Kings Place, 13th April 2018 JS Bach Triple Concerto in A minor for flute, violin & harpsichord BWV 1044 Concerto in D minor for violin (reconstructed from BWV 1052) Concerto in F for…

  April 25, 2018
• Classical Music Culture London Opera

  The Marriage of Figaro at the ENO review *****

  The Marriage of Figaro English National Opera, 12th April 2018 It isn’t easy to think of a better opera than the Marriage of Figaro. And, as we culture vultures know, when opera works there is scarcely any entertainment to match it. It is just a shame that opera so rarely…

  April 24, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Gigs London Uncategorized

  Bryce Dessner and the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists at Queen Elizabeth Hall review ***

  London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists, Galya Bisengalieva (violin), Rakhi Singh (violin), Robert Ames (viola), Oliver Coates (cello) – Bryce Dessner (electric guitar) Queen Elizabeth Hall. 10th April 2018 Bryce Dessner – Aheym for string quartet Mica Levi – You belong to me for string quartet Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint for…

  April 19, 2018