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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Culture London Opera Theatre

  The Rape of Lucretia at the Arcola Theatre review ****

  The Rape of Lucretia Grimeborn, Arcola Theatre, 1st August 2018 The Rape of Lucretia is a story with a long historical and artistic pedigree. It lies at the heart of the creation legend of the founding of the Roman Republic in the late 500s BCE, was documented by Livy and…

  August 27, 2018
• Classical Music Culture London Opera

  The Turn of the Screw at the Open Air Theatre review *****

  The Turn of the Screw Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, ENO, 29th June 2018 Benjamin Britten. The Turn of the Screw. Members of the ENO Orchestra conducted by up and coming talent Toby Purser. Timothy Sheader directing. A Soutra Gilmour set. At the Open Air Theatre. On a beautiful late…

  July 22, 2018
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture Ecology London Opera

  Cave at the Printworks review ****

  Cave The Printworks, Surrey Quays, 23rd June 2018 Cave is the second collaboration between composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake. Their last work, Between Worlds, which took as its subject the Twin Towers on 9/11, was superb. It was an immensely moving and sensitive elegy which focussed on the…

  July 13, 2018
• Baroque Church Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at St Luke’s Old St review *****

  Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) LSO St Luke’s Old St JS Bach Sonata no 3 for violin and harpsichord in E major BWV 1016 Partita no 2 for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 Sonata no 1 for violin and harpsichord in B minor BWV 1014 Toccata for…

  July 2, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London Opera

  Venetian Baroque: Academy of Ancient Music at St Luke’s Old St review ****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Cicic (violin), Persephone Gibbs (violin), Sarah McMahon (cello), Alistair Ross (harpsichord), William Cater (theorbo) LSO St Luke’s Old St, 15th June 2018 Dario Castello – Sonatas No 10 a 3 Book Two, No 1 a 2 Book One, Sonata No 1 for violin (Book Two),…

  July 1, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  LSO play Ravel and Mussorgsky at the Barbican review ***

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Yefim Bronfman (piano) Barbican Hall, 3rd June 2018 Ravel – Rapsodie Espagnole Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 3 Mussorgsky arranged Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition It has been a few years since I have heard Pictures at an Exhibition live, and I have thoroughly…

  June 19, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Nicola Benedetti and the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican review ****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Nicola Benedetti (violin), Richard Egarr (director and harpsichord) Barbican Hall, 31st May 2018 Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin in D major RV 208 “Il Grosso Mogul” Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Harpsichord RV 780 Mystery Composer – Sinfonia in D first movement Georg Philipp Telemann…

  June 12, 2018
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture History Literature London Opera Theatre

  Lessons in Love and Violence at the Royal Opera House review ****

  Lessons in Love and Violence Royal Opera House, 26th May 2018 Here is an extract from an illuminated manuscript showing Eddy II getting a crown. Or more precisely a second crown. Not sure what that is all about but given he was by reputation a high maintenance sort of fella…

  June 6, 2018
• art Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Romanticism

  Beethoven symphony cycle from Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at the Barbican review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades (conductor), Nicholas Hodges (piano), Joshua Bloom (bass) Barbican Hall, 22nd and 24th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 4 in B flat major Op 60 Gerard Barry – Piano Concerto Beethoven – Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 Gerard Barry – The Conquest of…

  June 3, 2018
• Church Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Barbican Hall review ***

  London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, Camilla Tilling (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone) Barbican Hall, 20th May 2018 Beethoven – Missa Solemnis Hard to believe that the scruffy scrawl above is from the hand of the greatest ever composer in one of…

  May 28, 2018
• Amsterdam Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture

  Christoph Sietzen and the Wave Quartet at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Christoph Sietzen, Wave Quartet (Bogdan Bacanu, Vladi Petrov, Emiko Uchiyama, Christoph Sietzen) Het Concert-Gebouw, Recital Hall, 16th May 2018 Emmanuel Séjourné – Attraction for marimba, vibraphone and tape Iannis Xenakis – Part B (from ‘Rebonds’) for percussion J.S. Bach/Brahms – Chaconne (from Second Partita in D, BWV 1004) (arr. B.…

  May 28, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Spira Mirabilis at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Spira Mirabilis Queen Elizabeth Hall, 15th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 Spira Mirabilis is a group of talented young musicians from around the world who play in various European orchestras. They hole up in Formigine in Northern Italy near Bologna to learn from each…

  May 27, 2018