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• 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 Culture London Opera

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the ENO review *****

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream English National Opera, 4th March 2018 Out of a long list of wildly inappropriate events that I dragged BD along to when she was younger perhaps provocateur Christopher Alden’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in this very house was the most egregious. Not because the…

  March 10, 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
• Architecture Baroque Church Classical Music Culture London London Buildings

  The Cardinall’s Musick at St John’s Square review ****

  The Cardinall’s Musick, War and Peace St John’s Smith Square, 19th November 2017 William Byrd – Kyrie from Mass for five voices William Byrd – Ad Dominum cum tribularer Benjamin Britten – Advance Democracy James MacMillan – When you see the millions of the mouthless dead Orlando Gibbons – O…

  November 19, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Britten Sinfonia at Milton Court review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Helen Grime This is Rattle, Milton Court Hall, 20th September 2017 Purcell – Fantasia Upon One Note Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Colin Matthews – A Purcell Garland Helen Grime – Into the Faded Air Oliver Knussen – Cantata Helen Grime – A Cold Spring Thomas Ades – Court…

  September 27, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Alina Ibragimova (violin) Prom 71, Royal Albert Hall, 6th September 2017 Igor Stravinsky – Funeral Song, Igor Stravinsky – Song of the Volga Boatmen, Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concert No 1 in D Major Benjamin Britten – Russian Funeral Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No 11…

  September 10, 2017