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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Concert Culture Symphony

  OAE at the Royal Festival Hall review

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Roger Norrington (conductor) Royal Festival Hall, 28th January 2020 Beethoven – Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 The Tourist has signed up for a lot of Beethoven this year. And already enjoyed many performances from many different ensembles with many different interpretations. Most of the…

  March 15, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Piano Soviet Union

  Igor Levit plays Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues at the Barbican review *****

  Igor Levit Barbican Hall, 26th January 2020 Dmitri Shostakovich – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 If you going to be inspired by anyone to write a monumental piano piece than JS Bach is a good place to start, specifically his Well Tempered Clavier collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues.…

  March 10, 2020
• Choral Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Oratorio

  Christ on the Mount of Olives: LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor), David Soar (bass), London Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (chorus director) Barbican Hall, 19th January 2020 Berg – Violin Concerto Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 After a somewhat disappointing take…

  March 9, 2020
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture Italy London Ravenna

  Accademia Bizantina at Milton Court review *****

  Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director) Milton Court Concert Hall, 19th January 2020 Bach the Craftsman: The Art of Fugue In which, as part of a Bach weekend curated by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, Ottavio Dantone and his troupe of crack HIP strings play the Art of Fugue. I should probably stop there…

  March 7, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture London Night Poetry

  Horn Calls: Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall review *****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Richard Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton (tenor) Royal Festival Hall, 16th January 2020 Carl Maria von Weber – Overture Der Freischütz Mark-Anthony Turnage – Horn Concerto (Towards Alba) Benjamin Britten – Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Broke the golden rule. It…

  March 6, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Culture Symphony

  LSO: Beethoven and Berg at the Barbican review ***

  London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) Barbican Hall, 15th January 2020 Berg – Seven Early Songs Beethoven – Symphony No 7 One of these Half Six Fix early start capers that Sir Si has introduced, a capital idea. A pairing of Berg with Beethoven. Sir Si being…

  March 1, 2020
• Authority Choral Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Opera Resistance

  prisoner of the state at the Barbican review ****

  BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor), Elkhanah Pulitzer (director), Julie Mathevet, Jarrett Ott, Alan Oke, Davóne Tines, BBC Singers Barbican Hall, 11th January 2020 In which American contemporary composer David Lang, co-founder alongside Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon and probably best known for his Pulitzer prize winning the little match…

  February 26, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Russia

  Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at the Wigmore Hall review ***

  Isabelle Faust (violin), Wies de Boevé (double bass), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Jörgen van Rijen (trombone), Raymond Curfs (drums), Dominique Horwitz (narrator) Wigmore Hall, 23rd December 2019 Bartok – Solo Violin Sonata BB124 Stravinsky – The Soldier’s Tale Curious confection this. Cut off from Russian royalties on the ballets, Stravinsky was…

  February 6, 2020
• Baroque Choral Christmas Classical Music Concert Culture London Oratorio

  Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at the Barbican Hall review ****

  Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock (director), Rachel Redmond (soprano), Claudia Huckle (alto), James Way (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass), Zürcher Sing-Akademie Barbican Hall, 11th December 2019 The Tourist’s annual Messiah. Almost Billy No Mates. But eventually MSBDB1 stepped into the breach. For which many thanks as Messiah is best shared. Now…

  January 30, 2020
• Age Ballet Beauty Classical Music Culture Edwardian Fiction Film Literature London Love Opera Venice

  Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House *****

  Death in Venice Royal Opera House, 3rd December 2019 Fresh from the superlative semi-staged version of Peter Grimes from Ed Gardner, the Bergen PO and assorted chums and straight into this. A top drawer new version of Death in Venice from David McVicar. I have fond memories of seeing Deborah…

  January 26, 2020
• Classical Music Community Concert Culture Landscaoe London Opera Place Sea Suffolk Tragedy

  Peter Grimes at the Royal Festival Hall review *****

  Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor), Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Choir of Collegiûm Mûsicûm, Håkon Matti Skrede (chorus master), Vera Rostin Wexelsen (stage direction) Royal Festival Hall, 30th November 2019 Let’s not waste too much time on this. For this extraordinary evening…

  January 26, 2020
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture London

  The Doric String Quartet at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Doric String Quartet Wigmore Hall, 22nd November 2019 Benjamin Britten – String Quartets No 1 in D Op 25, No 2 in C Op 36 and No 3 Op 94 All three Britten string quartets in one evening. Courtesy of the Doric String Quartet. Who have been working hard on…

  January 14, 2020