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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London

  LSO at the Barbican: Kodaly, McMillan and Shostakovich review ***

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Peter Moore (trombone) Barbican Hall, 1st November 2018 Zoltan Kodaly – Dances of Galanta James MacMillan – Trombone Concerto Dmitry Shostakovitch – Symphony No 4 Now it might be the fact that I was a bit poorly for this performance that accounts for this…

  November 9, 2018
• Classical Music Culture London Musicals Opera USA

  Porgy and Bess at the ENO review ****

  Porgy and Bess English National Opera, 31st October 2018 It has been a long time coming. This co-production, together with the Met and the Dutch National Opera, is the first time it has appeared on the Coliseum stage. The re-written version, with book by Suzanne Lori-Parks, (which attracted the ire…

  November 4, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  The Australian Chamber Orchestra at Milton Court review *****

  The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director) Milton Court Concert Hall, 22nd October 2018 WA Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat major K543 Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 Symphony No 41 “Jupiter” in C major K551 If you don’t know the Australian Chamber Orchestra then you should.…

  November 2, 2018
• art Classical Music Comedy Culture Literature London Oxford Poetry Sexuality Theatre

  The Habit of Art at Richmond Theatre review *****

  The Habit of Art Richmond Theatre, 19th October 2018 There are a handful of plays that I regret not seeing when they first appeared. Not those I wish I had seen, That would be a very long list and cover those periods where I was not putting the required viewing…

  October 27, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Russia

  BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review ****

  BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Martin Frost (clarinet) Barbican Hall, 17th October 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op 70 Aaron Copland – Clarinet Concerto Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No 6 in E flat major Op 111 Vikings, stave churches, Celsius, Bohr, Angstrom, Ibsen,…

  October 25, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Neo-Classical

  Southbank Sinfonia and Vladimir Ashkenazy at Milton Court review ****

  Southbank Sinfonia, Vladimir Ashkenazy Milton Court Concert Hall, 16th October 2018 Edvard Greig – Holberg Suite Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No 1 “Classical” Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No 7 I am very partial to Vladimir Ashkenazy’s musicianship. Especially his way with Beethoven and Chopin on the piano. I gather…

  October 24, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Classics Culture Early Music London Opera Renaissance

  English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire review ****

  English Touring Opera Hackney Empire, 12th October 2018 Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Carissimi – Jonas Gesualdo – I Will Not Speak I am partial to English Touring Opera’s productions. The repertoire tends to be up my street, with a bias to smaller, chamber and Baroque works, reflecting resources and…

  October 22, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture Education London Nature Science

  Holst’s The Planets: BBCSO at the Barbican review ****

  BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus (women’s voices), Professor Brian Cox, Ben Gernon Barbican Hall, 29th September 2018 I wasn’t quite sure of what the format would be for this performance of Holst’s The Planets. Maybe a quick intro from our most famous and telegenic physicist, then a work-out for…

  October 13, 2018
• Church Classical Music Concert Culture Early Music London Religion Renaissance

  The Cardinal’s Musick at Wigmore Hall review ****

  The Cardinal’s Musick, Andrew Carwood (director) Wigmore Hall, 27th September 2018 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Motet Tu es Petrus, Missa Tu es Petrus, Gregorian Chant, Magnus Sanctus Paulus a 8 Giovanni Bassano – O Rex gloriae Jacob Handl – Sanctus Bartholomeus Thomas Crecquillon – Andreas Christi famulus Tomás Luis…

  October 13, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Poetry

  Britten’s Spring Symphony from the LSO at the Barbican review ***

  LSO, LSO Chorus, Tiffin Choirs, Sir Simon Rattle, Philip Cobb (trumpet), Gabor Tarkovi (trumpet), Elizabeth Watts, (soprano) Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor) Barbican Hall, 17th September 2018 Harrison Birtwhistle – Donum Simoni MMXVIII Gustav Holst – Egdon Heath Mark-Anthony Turnage – Dispelling the Fears Benjamin Britten – Spring Symphony…

  September 29, 2018
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London Opera Renaissance Theatre

  The Second Violinist at the Barbican review ***

  The Second Violinist Barbican Theatre 7th September 2018 Ok so I bought a ticket here on a bit of a whim and because it garnered some awards on its premiere in Ireland. Now I know from past experience that the playwright Enda Walsh is not a man who likes to…

  September 18, 2018
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical London Opera Theatre

  Greek at the Arcola Theatre review *****

  Greek Grimeborn, Arcola Theatre, 13th August 2018 It is a shame Steven Berkoff’s plays don’t get performed more often. They do, like the stage, film and TV villains he has memorably played, (there he is above doing the menacing thing), sometimes lapse into “in yer face” cliche, but at their…

  August 27, 2018