Tag: Barbican Hall
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Glass and Reich: LSO at the Barbican review ***
Divine Geometry: London Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, Simone Dinnerstein (piano) Barbican Hall, 29th November 2018 Charles Coleman – Drenched Charles Coleman – Bach Inspired Philip Glass – Piano Concerto No 3 Kristjan Jarvi – Too Hot to Handel Steve Reich – Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Funny one this. As…
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Ligeti, Bartok and Haydn choral works at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor), Camilla Tilling, Adele Charvet, Julien Behr, Christopher Purves, William Thomas Barbican Hall, 11th November 2018 Gyorgy Ligeti – Lontano Bela Bartok – Cantata profana Haydn – Nelson Mass Three composers I like. Three works I did not know. A slightly earlier start.…
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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…
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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…
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BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review ****
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Martin Frost (clarinet) Barbican Hall, 17th October 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op 70 Aaron Copland – Clarinet Concerto Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No 6 in E flat major Op 111 Vikings, stave churches, Celsius, Bohr, Angstrom, Ibsen,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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