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Category: Classical Music

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  Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Barbican review *****

  Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon (conductor), Peter Sellars (director)  Barbican Hall, 23rd May 2019 Much taken with our last exposure to Peter Sellars distinctive way with dramatising the choral after the OAE St John Passion at the Festival Hall last month, BUD and I set off, fuelled as usual…

  June 15, 2019
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  Britten Sinfonia Beethoven cycle at the Barbican Hall review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades (conductor), Barbican Hall, 21st and 26th May 2019 Lawrence Power (viola) Eamonn Dougan (director) Jennifer France (soprano) Christianne Stotjin (alto) Ed Lyon (tenor) Matthew Rose (bass) Britten Sinfonia Voices Choir of Royal Holloway Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A majpor, Op 92 Gerald Barry –…

  June 10, 2019
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  Bach Orchestral Suites: OAE at Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Margaret Faultless (director/violin), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 14th May 2019 Okey dokey pig in a pokey. There has been a grumpy tone in the last few posts that the workshy Tourist, courtesy of an imagined pep talk from Pauline, is resolved to…

  June 1, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Symphony

  Herbert Blomstedt and the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall review *****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)  Royal Festival Hall, 14th April 2019 Mozart – Symphony No 40 K550 Beethoven – Symphony No 3 “Eroica” Bernard Haitink is 90. Herbert Blomstedt is closing in on his 92nd birthday. Unsurprisingly perhaps neither of them is particularly animated on the conductor’s podium. Mind you…

  April 26, 2019
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  The Magic Flute at the ENO review *****

  The Magic Flute English National Opera, 28th March 2019 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When opera works there is no other art form to touch. But when it doesn’t it can be mystifyingly dull. What’s more it can be the very same opera which is both…

  April 16, 2019
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  Bach St John Passion: OAE at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Simon Rattle (conductor), Peter Sellars (director), Choir of the Enlightenment Royal Festival Hall, 2nd April 2019 JS Bach – St John Passion Camilla Tilling (soprano) Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Staples (tenor) Mark Padmore (tenor, Evangelist) Roderick Williams (baritone, Jesus) George Nigl (baritone) The Tourist, along with chum for the night…

  April 15, 2019
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  Mozart and Beethoven chamber music for winds at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Alexander Melnikov (piano), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Teunis van der Zwart (horn) Wigmore Hall, 31st March 2019 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio in B minor K540 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K452 Ludwig van Beethoven – Horn Sonata in F Op.…

  April 14, 2019
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  English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall review *****

  English Chamber Orchestra, Jessica Cottis (conductor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ben Goldscheider (horn) Cadogan Hall, 16th March 2019 Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31 Purcell/Britten – Suite of Six Songs from Orpheus Britannicus Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite I love Britten’s Serenade, first…

  April 3, 2019
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  Ligeti Immersion Day at the Barbican review ****

  Ligeti Immersion Day, Guildhall Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Sofi Jeaninn (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin), Nicolas Hodges (piano) Milton Court Concert Hall, St Giles’ Cripplegate, Barbican Hall, 2nd March 2019 Not obligatory to illustrate the world of Gyorgy Ligeti with a “universe” picture. But given the…

  March 21, 2019
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  Lucie Horsch and the AAM at Milton Court review *****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (harpsichord, director), Lucie Horsch (recorder)  Milton Court Concert Hall, 24th February 2019 Antonio Vivaldi – Flautino Concerto in C major, RV443 (arr in G major for recorder) JS Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No 3 in D major BW V1054 Giuseppe Sammartini – Recorder Concerto…

  March 15, 2019