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Category: Concert

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  King Arthur by Henry Purcell at the Cadogan Hall review ***

  London Concert Choir, Counterpoint, Mark Forkgen (conductor), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Bethany Partridge (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Way (tenor), Peter Willcock (baritone) Cadogan Hall, 7th November 2019 Henry Purcell – King Arthur Early afternoon spent in the company of Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’s Joker before an…

  December 4, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Piano Soviet Union Symphony

  Britten and Shostakovich: LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Denis Matsuev (piano) Barbican Hall, 31st October 2019 Britten – Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from ‘Peter Grimes’ Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No 2, Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 Right if I am ever to catch up I am going tp have to be…

  December 1, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Minimalism New York

  The Philip Glass Ensemble at the Barbican Hall review ****

  The Philip Glass Ensemble Barbican Hall, 30th October 2019 Philip Glass – Music With Changing Parts Of course it was a disappointment that PG himself wasn’t up to appearing but the old boy is coming up to 83 years old and was poorly. Hopefully he is better now. Anyway this…

  November 29, 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
• 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
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  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
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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
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture Enlightenment Germany London Opera Symphony

  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