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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Culture Enlightenment London Opera

  Seraglio at the Hackney Empire review ****

  Seraglio Hackney Empire, 4th October 2019 Or to give it its full name Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail or The Abduction from the Seraglio. Here though Seraglio, not just to reflect the fact that this English Touring Opera production is sung, (and spoken), in English following a colloquial translation by…

  November 15, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture Suite

  Prom 71 The Dunedin Consort at the Royal Albert Hall review ****

  Prom 71 – Dunedin Consort, John Butt (conductor) Royal Albert Hall, 11th September 2019 JS Bach – Orchestral Suites 1-4 Nico Muhly – Tambourin Stevie Wishart – The Last Dance? Ailie Robertson – Chaconne Stuart MacRae – Courante No need to delay too long on the JSB. Last seen and…

  October 15, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics London

  Prom 70 Jonny Greenwood at the Royal Albert Hall review *****

  Prom 70 – BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Proms Youth Ensemble, Hugh Brunt (conductor), Daniel Pioro violin), Katherine Tinker (piano), Jonny Greenwood (bass guitar, tanpura), Nicolas Magriel (tanpura) Royal Albert Hall, 10th September 2019 Biber – Mystery Sonata no 16, Passacaglia in G minor Penderecki – Sinfonietta for strings,…

  October 14, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Symphony

  Prom 15, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra review *****

  Prom 15 – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)  Royal Albert Hall, 30th July 2019 Beethoven – Symphony No 2 Shostakovich – Symphony No 5  It always surprises just how few Proms concerts tick all the boxes for the Tourist. I can usually only manage 4 or 5 in…

  September 15, 2019
• Bible Classical Music Community Culture London Opera Performance Theatre

  Noye’s Fludde at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ****

  Noye’s Fludde Theatre Royal Stratford East, 3rd July 2019 You might think it’s a bit sad really. A grown man in his 50s on his own at a children’s opera performed by a community that he cannot claim to be any part of. Unfortunately my kids never caught the Britten…

  August 31, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture Italy London Sonata

  Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque: Vivaldi at the Wigmore Hall review *****

  Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque, Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord), Daniele Caminiti (lute) Wigmore Hall, 1st July 2019 Antonio Vivaldi Sonata a4 al Santo Sepolcro RV130 Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93 Concerto in D Op 3, No 9…

  August 24, 2019
• Amsterdam Architecture Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture Czech Suite Symphony

  Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin)  Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, 19th June 2019 Detlev Glanert – Weites Land Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 Bedrich Smetana – Vysehrad, De Moldau and Sárka from Má vlast  There’s a clue in the title. The Tourist finds himself…

  August 1, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture Germany London

  Collegium Vocale Gent at the Barbican review *****

  Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hanna Blazikova (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass) Barbican Hall, 14th June 2019 It’s Bach. It’s the B Minor Mass. So of course it is beautiful. But it can be a bit, well, “bitty”. After all the…

  August 1, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Minimalism

  Music of the Spheres: Aurora Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Kate Wicks (production design), William Reynolds (lighting design)  Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5th June 2019 Max Richter – Journey (CP1919) Beethoven – Molto Adagio from String Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2 (Razumovsky) Thomas Adès – Concerto for violin & chamber orchestra (Concentric…

  June 28, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics Germany London

  Stockhausen chamber music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion), Marco Stroppa (sound design) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2nd June 2019 Karlheinz Stockhausen Zyklus for percussion Mantra for 2 pianos with 12 antique cymbals, woodblock & 2 ring modulators (and shortwave radio/tape)  I confess. I was defeated by the performance of Donnerstag aus Licht by…

  June 25, 2019