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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Culture Exhibition London Opera

  Opera: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition at the V&A review ****

  Opera: Passion, Power and Politics V&A, 13th November 2017 You can’t seem to navigate on t’Internet, (all right, the bit that isn’t hate, porn or celebrity, which doesn’t leave much), for confessionals from opera lovers telling you how they came to love the “queen”, or is it “king”, of art…

  November 19, 2017
• Architecture Baroque Church Classical Music Culture London London Buildings

  The Cardinall’s Musick at St John’s Square review ****

  The Cardinall’s Musick, War and Peace St John’s Smith Square, 19th November 2017 William Byrd – Kyrie from Mass for five voices William Byrd – Ad Dominum cum tribularer Benjamin Britten – Advance Democracy James MacMillan – When you see the millions of the mouthless dead Orlando Gibbons – O…

  November 19, 2017
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Luciano Berio: London Sinfonietta at Kings Place review *****

  Luciano Berio: Theatre of the World London Sinfonietta, Kings Place Choir, Jonathan Cross (presenter), John Woolrich (curator) Kings Place, 4th November Lucy Schaufer – mezzo-soprano Michael Cox – flute Darragh Morgan – violin Paul Silverthorne – viola Timothy Lines – clarinet Lucy Wakeford – harp Young violinists from Waltham Forest…

  November 15, 2017
• Baroque Classical Music Culture London

  Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 3rd November 2017 Bach The Art of Fugue Contrapunctus 1 to 4 Mozart Piano Concerto 15 Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence There is something truly thrilling about watching a group of string players,…

  November 11, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Beethoven and Shostakovich: LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ***

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Inon Barnatan Royal Festival Hall, 27th October 2017 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 5 “Emperor” Shostakovich – Symphony No 7 “Leningrad” Off to the Festival Hall for a couple of big beasts of the repertoire (or at least the repertoire I like). Yet I have…

  November 8, 2017
• Baroque Classical Music Culture London

  “Italy in England”, Academy of Ancient Music at Milton Court review ****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Cicic (director and violin), Frank de Bruine (oboe) Italy in England: When Handel Met Corelli, Milton Court Concert Hall, 19th October 2017 Corelli – Concerto Grosso in D major Op. 6 No. 4 Handel – Concerto for Oboe No. 3 in G minor Geminiani –…

  November 1, 2017
• Church Classical Music Culture London

  The Judas Passion at St John’s Smith Square review ***

  Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Nicholas McGegan, Brenden Gunnell, Roderick Williams, Mary Bevan, Choir of the OAE St John’s Smith Square, 25th September 2017 The Judas Passion is a new work commissioned by the OAE and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco, and was composed by Sally Beamish with…

  October 2, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Fretwork at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Fretwork (Asako Morikawa, Joanna Levine, Sam Stadlen, Emily Ashton, Richard Boothby) Wigmore Hall, 18th September 2017 JS Bach – The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I-XI, XIV Fretwork are one of those marvellous groups of dedicated adventurers who have brought Early, Renaissance and Baroque music back to life. There was…

  September 29, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Britten Sinfonia at Milton Court review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Helen Grime This is Rattle, Milton Court Hall, 20th September 2017 Purcell – Fantasia Upon One Note Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Colin Matthews – A Purcell Garland Helen Grime – Into the Faded Air Oliver Knussen – Cantata Helen Grime – A Cold Spring Thomas Ades – Court…

  September 27, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Stravinsky from Rattle and the LSO at the Barbican review *****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle Barbican Hall, 24th September 2017 Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird (original ballet) Igor Stravinsky – Petrushka (1947 version) Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring So here is is. The second coming. Sir Simon Rattle kicks off his tenure at the helm of the…

  September 26, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Alina Ibragimova (violin) Prom 71, Royal Albert Hall, 6th September 2017 Igor Stravinsky – Funeral Song, Igor Stravinsky – Song of the Volga Boatmen, Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concert No 1 in D Major Benjamin Britten – Russian Funeral Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No 11…

  September 10, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Alexander Melnikov and the Latvian Radio Choir at Cadogan Hall review ****

  Alexander Melnikov (piano), Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava Proms Chamber Music No 5, Cadogan Hall, 14th August 2017 Dimitri Shostakovich – Preludes and Fugues Op 87 – Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 7. 8 Dimitri Shostakovich – Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets, Op 88 – Nos 5,6,7,8,9 Previous…

  August 19, 2017