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Category: Contemporary Classical

• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Ireland London Opera Theatre War

  The Silver Tassie at the Barbican review *****

  The Silver Tassie Barbican Hall, 10th November 2018 Mark-Anthony Turnage (composer) Amanda Holden (libretto) Ashley Riches – Harry Sally Matthews – Susie Brindley Sherratt – The Croucher Claire Booth – Mrs Foran Marcus Farnsworth – Teddy Alexander Robin Baker – Barney Louise Alder – Jessie Susan Bickley – Mrs Heegan…

  November 24, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical London

  Emerson String Quartet at Milton Court review ****

  The Emerson String Quartet Milton Court Concert Hall, 8th November 2018 Britten – String Quartet No 3, Op 94 Shostakovich – String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 Beethoven – String Quartet No 7 in F major, Op 59 No 1, “Razumovsky” You still see some venerable rock…

  November 21, 2018
• 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
• Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Religion Science

  Thomas Ades and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Ades, Kirill Gerstein (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 26th September 2018 Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements Thomas Ades – In Seven Days (Concerto for piano and orchestra) Witold Lutoslawski – Symphony No 3 Thomas Ades is a talented chap. As composer, conductor and performer he…

  October 11, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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