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• Classical Music Concert Culture London Neo-Classical

  Southbank Sinfonia and Vladimir Ashkenazy at Milton Court review ****

  Southbank Sinfonia, Vladimir Ashkenazy Milton Court Concert Hall, 16th October 2018 Edvard Greig – Holberg Suite Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No 1 “Classical” Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No 7 I am very partial to Vladimir Ashkenazy’s musicianship. Especially his way with Beethoven and Chopin on the piano. I gather…

  October 24, 2018
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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…

  June 3, 2018
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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…

  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 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

  Beethoven and Shostakovich from the LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Barbican Hall, 8th April 2018 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 Shostakovich  – Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65 I could be imagining it but the LSO seems to be notching up a gear, from its…

  April 18, 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
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart at Cadogan Hall review ****

  SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Sir Roger Norrington, Francesco Piemontesi (piano) Cadogan Hall, 16th March 2018 Ludwig van Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op 43 Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 Symphony No 3 in E flat major “Eroica”, Op 55 I guess the fashion for all…

  March 30, 2018
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  SCO Winds at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists Wigmore Hall, 12th February 2018 Beethoven – Sextet in E flat, Op 71 Poulenc – Sonata for clarinet and bassoon Beethoven – Octet in E flat, Op 103 A rare opportunity for completists to hear performances of Beethoven’s Sextet and Octet written for wind instruments.…

  February 24, 2018
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  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
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Nicola Benedetti and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall

  The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Marin Alsop, Nicola Benedetti Royal Festival Hall, 4th February 2018 Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D major “Stardom” in the classical music world is a curious thing. To get there ideally you need to be a…

  February 11, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review *****

  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Yefim Bronfman (piano) Barbican Hall, 24th November 2017 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 Prokofiev – Symphony No 5 Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony, Chicago Symphony. These are the orchestras usually held up as the world’s best. The smart money though also…

  December 2, 2017