Category: Classical Music
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Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at St John’s Smith Square review ****
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: The Brandenburgs St John’s Smith Square, 2nd May 2017 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 JS Bach. Tick. Brandenburg Concertos.…
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Steve Reich’s Drumming and Tehillim at the Royal Festival Hall review *****
The Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals Royal Festival Hall, 5th May 2017 Steve Reich – Tehillim 1981 Steve Reich – Drumming 1971 There are a handful of sacred founding texts when it comes to the world of US minimalist music. Terry Riley’s In C certainly, John Adams’s Harmonielehre and Short…
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Hagen Quartet at the Wigmore Hall review ****
Hagen Quartet Wigmore Hall, 29th April 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73 String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major Op. 142 String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor Op. 144 To paraphrase a great man about a great band “always different, always…
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Kopatchinskaja and Gabetta at the Wigmore Hall review ****
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta Wigmore Hall, 27th April 2017 Iannis Xenakis – Dhipli zyia Jörg Widmann – Extracts from 24 Duos for violin and cello Maurice Ravel – Sonata for violin and cello György Ligeti – Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Peter Eötvös – a Call Zoltán Kodály – Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 So…
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Verdi Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall review ***
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach Choir Royal Festival Hall, 13th April 2017 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko – Conductor Maija Kovalevska – Soprano Karen Cargill – Mezzo-Soprano Saimir Pirgu – Tenor Alexander Vinogradov – Bass The Bach Choir Verdi – Requiem Right. Off to the RFH with BUD for a bit…
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Tenebrae and the Aurora Orchestra at St John’s Smith Square review ****
Tenebrae and Aurora Orchestra: Bach and Faure St John’s Smith Square, 12th April 2017 Tenebrae Aurora Orchestra Emma Walshe – Soprano Stephen Kennedy – Baritone Max Baillie – Violin Nigel Short – Conductor Bach – Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein BWV245 Bach – Partita No. 2 in D – Allemande BWV1004…
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Balm in Gilead at the Guildhall School review ***
Balm in Gilead Silk Street Theatre, 27th March 2017 Less a review, more a plug for the terrific music, drama and opera on offer to you, the London public, from the massively talented students (and teachers) at the Guildhall School on the Barbican site. There’s all manner of free stuff…
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Nederlands Kamerkoor at Cadogan Hall review *****
Nederlands Kamerkoor: Sacred and Profane Cadogan Hall, 8th March 2017 Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia Gabriel Jackson – Ave Regina caelorum Berio – Cries of London Lars Johan Werle – Orpheus Lars Johan Werle – Canzone 126 di Francesco Petrarca Britten – Sacred and Profane Another bit of a catch up here. This was so…
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Bryars and Reich, LPO at the RFH review ****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Synergy Vocals, Sound Intermedia Royal Festival Hall, 15th March 2017 Now it is a racing certainty that you will be familiar one way or another with the great minimalist composers of the second half of the C20 even if you don’t know it. The sound is ubiquitous…
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Pollini at the RFH review *****
Maurizio Pollini Royal Festival Hall, 14th March 2017 Now I am afraid I don’t know much about classical music but I am learning. I can’t read music or play to save my life. There are vast chunks of the classical music canon that I don’t get on with. I have…
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