Tag: Barbican Hall
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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Ligeti Immersion Day at the Barbican review ****
Ligeti Immersion Day, Guildhall Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Sofi Jeaninn (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin), Nicolas Hodges (piano) Milton Court Concert Hall, St Giles’ Cripplegate, Barbican Hall, 2nd March 2019 Not obligatory to illustrate the world of Gyorgy Ligeti with a “universe” picture. But given the…
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Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican review ****
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Marios Papadopoulos (conductor), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Maxim Vengerov (violin), Martha Argerich (piano) Barbican Hall, 12th January 2019 JS Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV 1043, Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 Beethoven – Symphony No 3 in E flat…
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The LSO and Barbara Hannigan at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Barbara Hannigan (soprano) Barbican Hall, 10th January 2019 Sibelius – Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 105 Hans Abrahamsen – let me tell you Nielsen – Symphony No 4 “Inextinguishable”, Op 29 I am pretty sure that Simon Rattle’s Sibelius cycle with the…
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My top ten concerts and opera of 2018
Just a list so I don’t forget. 1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – English National Opera – 4th March Not quite a war-horse of a production but Robert Carsen’s version of Britten’s Shakespearean opera looks, sounds and, well, is just wonderful. 2. Ligeti in Wonderland – South Bank – 11th,…
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Handel’s Messiah at the Barbican review ****
Britten Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia Voices Handel’s Messiah, Barbican Hall, 19th December 2018 Jacqueline Shave (violin/director), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Allen Clayton (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) Christmas on the way. Full house at the Barbican. MSBD as wingman. Messiah. A quartet of outstanding soloists. The Britten Sinfonia Voices. The…
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