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Category: Concert

• Church Concert Culture Early Music London Renaissance

  Tallis Scholars and Peter Philips at Cadogan Hall review ****

  The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director) Cadogan Hall, 7th June 2018 Robert White – Domine, quis habitabit John Sheppard – Missa Cantate John Sutton – Salve regina Robert White – Magnificat Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium I just cast my eye over an article in the Guardian purporting to…

  June 21, 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
• Concert Culture Gigs London Pop/Rock/Indie

  Echo and the Bunnymen at the Royal Albert Hall review *****

  Echo and The Bunnymen: The Stars, the Ocean and the Moon Royal Albert Hall, 1st June 2018 Rescue Villiers Terrace – (Roadhouse Blues) All That Jazz Stormy Weather The Somnabulist Nothing Lasts Forever All My Colours Angels and Devils Bedbugs and Ballyhoo Lips Like Sugar Rust In The Margins Bring…

  June 10, 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
• 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
• Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Icebreaker at Kings Place review ****

  Icebreaker: Velocity Kings Place, 5th May 2018 Anna Meredith – Nautilus Michael Gordon – Yo Shakespeare Paul Whitty – nature is a language – can’t you read? David Lang – Slow Movement Louis Andriessen – De snelheid (‘Velocity’) Boundaries. And their close, and troublesome cousins, borders. The bane of human…

  May 11, 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