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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Culture London

  Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin at the Wigmore Hall review *****

  Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Bernhard Forck Wigmore Hall, 29th June 2017 JS Bach – Suite No 2 in A Minor BWV 1067a JS Bach – Violin Concerto in E Major BWV 1042 JS Bach – Violin Concerto in A Minor BWV 1041 CPE Bach – String Symphony…

  July 7, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Monteverdi Vespers at the Barbican Hall review *****

  The Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of the AAM, Robert Howarth, Louise Alder, Rowan Pierce, Thomas Hobbs, Charles Daniels Barbican Hall, 23rd June 2017 It was the Academy of Ancient Music and its choir performing Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. It was bound to get 5 stars. If you have spent your…

  July 2, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Ensemble InterContemporain at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Ensemble InterContemporain Wigmore Hall, 20th June 2017 Debussy – Premiere rapsodie Bruno Maderna – Viola Messiaen – Le merle noir Philippe Schoeller – Madrigal Luciano Berio – Sequenza 1 Ravel – Violin Sonata Matteo Franceschini – Les Excentriques Ensemble InterContemporain was founded in 1972 by Pierre Boulez and tenures 31…

  July 1, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall review ****

  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Jan Mracek Cadogan Hall, 16th June 2017 Berio – Sequenza V for solo trombone Prokofiev – Quintet in G Minor Debussy – Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune, Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Shostakovich – Symphony No 5 A welcome innovation from the RPO at its Cadogan…

  June 28, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Murray Perahia at the Barbican Hall review ***

  Murray Perahia Barbican Hall, 11th June 2017 J S Bach – French Suite No 6 in E major, BWV 817 Schubert – 4 Impromptus Op 142, D 935 Mozart – Rondo in A minor, K 511 Beethoven -Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111 Murray Perahia is a great…

  June 20, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Mahan Esfahani at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Mahan Esfahani Wigmore Hall, 5th June 2017 Thomas Tomkins – Pavane in A Minor Giles Farnaby – Woody-Cock Henry Cowell – Set of Four WF Bach – Sonata E Flat Major Steve Reich (arr Esfahani) – Piano Phase The harpsichord is certainly not my favourite instrument. (Electric guitar since you…

  June 10, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at the Barbican Hall *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades Barbican Hall, 6th June 2017 Gerard Barry – Chevaux-de-frise Beethoven – Symphony No 3 in E Flat Major. Op 55 “Eroica” That Beethoven eh. Too busy being a genius to get a decent haircut. Another reason why he is my sort of bloke. I have raved…

  June 8, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at the Barbican Hall *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades, Mark Stone Barbican Hall, 2nd June 2017 Gerard Barry – Beethoven Beethoven – Symphony No 1 in C Major, Op 21 Beethoven – Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36 After the chamber concert earlier in the week reviewed here – Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at…

  June 4, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Richard Goode at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Richard Goode Royal Festival Hall, 31st May 2017 JS Bach – Partita No 6 BWV 830 Chopin – Nocturne Op 62/1 Chopin – Mazurka Op 41/3 Chopin – Mazurka Op 41/4 Chopin – Mazurka – Op 50/3 Chopin – Polonaise-Fantasie Op 61 Beethoven – Sonata No 28 Op 101 Beethoven…

  June 4, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at Milton Court review *****

  Thomas Ades, Gerald Barry, Britten Sinfonia Milton Court Concert Hall, 30th May 2017 Beethoven – Septet in E Flat Major Op 20 Gerald Barry – Five Chorales from the Intelligence Park Beethoven – Piano Trio in E Flat Op 70/2 I’m guessing that composer heaven is a miserable place. All…

  June 3, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review ****

  Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir Mark Elder, London Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, 7th May 2017 Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov – Prelude to Khovanshchina Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 Shostakovich – Symphony No.15 in A major Op.141 Who’d be a Russian composer eh. Mussorgsky drinks himself to death at 42…

  May 21, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Tim Gill (cellist) at Kings Place review *****

  London Sinfonietta’s Tim Gill: Avant Cello Kings Place, 6th May 2017 Tim Gill – cello Fali Pavri – piano Sound Intermedia Anton Webern – 3 kleine Stücke, Op. 11, Olivier Messiaen – ‘Louange à l’Éternite du Jesus Christ’ (‘Praise to the eternity of Jesus’) from Quartet for the End of…

  May 11, 2017