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Category: Contemporary Classical

• 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 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
• Contemporary Classical Culture Literature London Opera Theatre

  Coraline at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Coraline Barbican Theatre, 7th April 2018 Was I the only person in the audience who knew nothing about Neil Gaiman’s 2003 cult children’s fantasy novella from whence came Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Coraline? It certainly felt like it. To be fair the provenance had dawned on me some time before the…

  April 16, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Carducci Quartet at St John’s Smith Square review ****

    The Carducci Quartet St John’s Smith Square, 23rd March 2018 This was the second time I had heard the Carduccis perform the first five Philip Glass string quartets, following their performance at Kings Place as part of the marvellous Minimalism Unwrapped year long festival in 2015. They are, along…

  April 4, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  BBC Symphony Orchestra and Vilde Frang at the Barbican Hall review ****

  BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Vilde Frang (violin) Barbican Hall, 21st March 2018 Anna Clyne – This Midnight Hour Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto, Op 15 Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No 6 in F major “Pastoral”, Op 68 The Violin Concerto is one of those Britten pieces that takes…

  April 1, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture Early Music London Renaissance

  My favourite classical concerts of 2017

  Right I know it is a bit late in the day but I wanted to make a list of the concerts I enjoyed most from last year. So everything that got a 5* review based on my entirely subjective criteria is ordered below. Top is Sir Simon and the LSO…

  February 15, 2018
• Church Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir at Milton Court review ****

  Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putnins (conductor) Milton Court Concert Hall, 30th January 2018 Arvo Part Solfeggio Summa Magnificat Zwei Beter The Woman With the Alabaster Box Nunc dimittis Dopo la vittoria Cyrillus Kreek Onnis on inimene (Blessed is the Man) Psalm 104 Jonathan Harvey Plainsongs for Peace and Light…

  February 8, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Early Music London Renaissance

  Britten Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall review *****

  Britten Sinfonia Wigmore Hall, 24th January 2018 Heinrich Biber – Mystery Sonata No 1 “The Annunciation” Philip Glass – Orbit Leo Chadburn – Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe Arvo Part – Spiegel am Spiegel WA Mozart – Piano Trio No 3 K502 There is something of the spirit of punk…

  January 30, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Colin Currie Group at Kings Place review ****

  Colin Currie Group Kings Place, 20th January 2018 Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood New York Counterpoint Mallet Quartet Drumming Part 1 Vermont Counterpoint Quartet (2013) So off to Kings Place for another immersion into the sound world of Steve Reich guided by his finest living advocates (probably), the…

  January 29, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Peter Wispelwey (cellist) at Kings Place review ****

  Peter Wispelwey, cello Cello Unwrapped: Bach Through Time Concert III. Kings Place Hall 1, 8th December 2017 JS Bach – Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007 Benjamin Britten – Cello Suite No 3, Op 87 Gyorgy Ligeti – Sonata for solo cello JS Bach – Cello Suite No…

  December 27, 2017
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Stockhausen’s Stimmung at the Barbican ****

  Singcircle Barbican Hall, 20th November 2017 Jacqueline Barron – soprano Zoe Freedman – soprano Heather Cairncross – mezzo-soprano Guy Elliott – tenor Angus Smith – tenor Gregory Rose – bass/director Robert Henke – laser artist Kathinka Pasveer – sound projection Stephen Montague – assistant sound projection Reinhard Klose – sound…

  November 24, 2017
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Luciano Berio: London Sinfonietta at Kings Place review *****

  Luciano Berio: Theatre of the World London Sinfonietta, Kings Place Choir, Jonathan Cross (presenter), John Woolrich (curator) Kings Place, 4th November Lucy Schaufer – mezzo-soprano Michael Cox – flute Darragh Morgan – violin Paul Silverthorne – viola Timothy Lines – clarinet Lucy Wakeford – harp Young violinists from Waltham Forest…

  November 15, 2017