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Category: Classical Music

• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Ligeti in Wonderland at the South Bank review *****

  Ligeti in Wonderland Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, 11th, 12th and 13th May 2018 Pierre–Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn), Daniel Ciampollini (percussion) Ligeti – Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes, Ligeti – 3 pieces for 2 pianos (Monument, Selbstportrat, Bewegubg), Ligeti – Trio…

  May 23, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican review ***/***

  Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Barbican Hall, 2nd May and 4th May 2018 Esa-Pekka Salonen – Pollux Edgar Varese – Ameriques Shostakovich – Symphony No 5 Beethoven – Symphony No 9 “Choral” Canny students of architecture will realise that the pic above is not of the Barbican. The…

  May 7, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Shostakovich from the Philharmonia and Ashkenazy review ****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), James Ehnes (violin) Royal Festival Hall, 29th April 2018 Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor, Op.77 Symphony no. 4 in C minor, Op.43 Apparently Vladimir Ashkenazy was at the premiere of the Fourth Symphony. In 1961, in Moscow, 25 years after it…

  May 7, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Stravinsky, Debussy and Shostakovich: LPO and Leif Ove Andsnes at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 18th April 2018 Stravinsky – Symphony in C, Stravinsky – Tango arr. for orchestra Debussy – Fantaisie for piano and orchestra Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 54 I am pretty confident that no-one reads…

  April 29, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Bach: The Late Concertos from the Feinstein Ensemble at Kings Place review ****

  The Feinstein Ensemble, Catherine Mason, Miki Takahashi, Sarah Moffatt (violins), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), Martin Feinstein (flute, director) Kings Place, 13th April 2018 JS Bach Triple Concerto in A minor for flute, violin & harpsichord BWV 1044 Concerto in D minor for violin (reconstructed from BWV 1052) Concerto in F for…

  April 25, 2018
• Classical Music Culture London Opera

  The Marriage of Figaro at the ENO review *****

  The Marriage of Figaro English National Opera, 12th April 2018 It isn’t easy to think of a better opera than the Marriage of Figaro. And, as we culture vultures know, when opera works there is scarcely any entertainment to match it. It is just a shame that opera so rarely…

  April 24, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Gigs London Uncategorized

  Bryce Dessner and the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists at Queen Elizabeth Hall review ***

  London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists, Galya Bisengalieva (violin), Rakhi Singh (violin), Robert Ames (viola), Oliver Coates (cello) – Bryce Dessner (electric guitar) Queen Elizabeth Hall. 10th April 2018 Bryce Dessner – Aheym for string quartet Mica Levi – You belong to me for string quartet Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint for…

  April 19, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) Wigmore Hall, 9th April 2018 JS Bach – Violin Sonatas 4, 5 and 2, BWV 1017, 1018 and 1015, Johan Jacob Froberger Suite No 12 in C minor for harpsichord, Biber – Violin Sonata No 5 in E minor, Mystery Sonatas Passacaglia in G…

  April 19, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Beethoven and Shostakovich from the LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Barbican Hall, 8th April 2018 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 Shostakovich  – Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65 I could be imagining it but the LSO seems to be notching up a gear, from its…

  April 18, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Laura van der Heijden and Petr Limonov at Wigmore Hall review ***

  Laura van der Heijden (cello), Petr Limonov (piano) Wigmore Hall, 2nd April 2018 Britten – Cello Sonata in C major, Op 65 Shostakovich – Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 21st December 1960. Britten and Shostakovich are sharing a box at the Festival Hall. That’s right the two greatest…

  April 15, 2018
• Church Classical Music Concert Early Music London Renaissance

  Tallis Scholars at St Johns Smith Square review ****

  The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director) St John’s Smith Square, 31st March 2018 Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Surrexit pastor bonus Vidi speciosam Magnificat for double choir Missa pro defunctis Requiem Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Tota pulchra es Hei mihi, Domine Alonso Lobo (1555 -1617) Versa est in luctum Having dipped…

  April 13, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Culture Early Music London

  Rachel Podger and VOCES8 at Kings Place review ****

  Rachel Podger, VOCES8 – A Guardian Angel Kings Place, 28th March 2018 Orlando Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears Plainchant – Pater Noster Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Rosary Sonata No 16 Passacaglia “A Guardian Angel” Jonathan Dove – into thy hands Nicola Matteis – Passaggio rotto, Fantasia, Movimento incognito…

  April 9, 2018