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Category: Classical Music

• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) Wigmore Hall, 9th April 2018 JS Bach – Violin Sonatas 4, 5 and 2, BWV 1017, 1018 and 1015, Johan Jacob Froberger Suite No 12 in C minor for harpsichord, Biber – Violin Sonata No 5 in E minor, Mystery Sonatas Passacaglia in G…

  April 19, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Beethoven and Shostakovich from the LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Barbican Hall, 8th April 2018 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 Shostakovich  – Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65 I could be imagining it but the LSO seems to be notching up a gear, from its…

  April 18, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Laura van der Heijden and Petr Limonov at Wigmore Hall review ***

  Laura van der Heijden (cello), Petr Limonov (piano) Wigmore Hall, 2nd April 2018 Britten – Cello Sonata in C major, Op 65 Shostakovich – Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 21st December 1960. Britten and Shostakovich are sharing a box at the Festival Hall. That’s right the two greatest…

  April 15, 2018
• Church Classical Music Concert Early Music London Renaissance

  Tallis Scholars at St Johns Smith Square review ****

  The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director) St John’s Smith Square, 31st March 2018 Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Surrexit pastor bonus Vidi speciosam Magnificat for double choir Missa pro defunctis Requiem Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Tota pulchra es Hei mihi, Domine Alonso Lobo (1555 -1617) Versa est in luctum Having dipped…

  April 13, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Culture Early Music London

  Rachel Podger and VOCES8 at Kings Place review ****

  Rachel Podger, VOCES8 – A Guardian Angel Kings Place, 28th March 2018 Orlando Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears Plainchant – Pater Noster Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Rosary Sonata No 16 Passacaglia “A Guardian Angel” Jonathan Dove – into thy hands Nicola Matteis – Passaggio rotto, Fantasia, Movimento incognito…

  April 9, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Thierry Fischer, Neville Creed, Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), William Davies (treble) Royal Festival Hall, 24th March 2018 Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Violin Concerto in D Credo, Ave Maria, Pater Noster Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms I have banged on before about the virtues of Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss,…

  April 6, 2018
• Classical Music Culture London Opera

  From the House of the Dead at the Royal Opera House review ****

  From the House of the Dead Royal Opera House, 22nd March 2018 Now this is it what opera is all about. Not just some portly punters, (though a couple of the chaps here were carrying as much timber as me), parking themselves mid-stage and belting out their arias. No here…

  April 5, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Carducci Quartet at St John’s Smith Square review ****

    The Carducci Quartet St John’s Smith Square, 23rd March 2018 This was the second time I had heard the Carduccis perform the first five Philip Glass string quartets, following their performance at Kings Place as part of the marvellous Minimalism Unwrapped year long festival in 2015. They are, along…

  April 4, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  BBC Symphony Orchestra and Vilde Frang at the Barbican Hall review ****

  BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Vilde Frang (violin) Barbican Hall, 21st March 2018 Anna Clyne – This Midnight Hour Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto, Op 15 Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No 6 in F major “Pastoral”, Op 68 The Violin Concerto is one of those Britten pieces that takes…

  April 1, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart at Cadogan Hall review ****

  SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Sir Roger Norrington, Francesco Piemontesi (piano) Cadogan Hall, 16th March 2018 Ludwig van Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op 43 Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 Symphony No 3 in E flat major “Eroica”, Op 55 I guess the fashion for all…

  March 30, 2018