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• Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Russia Soviet Union Symphony War

  Noseda and the LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Roman Simovic (violin) Barbican Hall, 9th February 2020 Prokofiev – Symphony No 1 in D major Op 25 “Classical” Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 1 Op 19 Mussorgsky arr Rimsky-Korsakov – Prelude to “Khovanshchina” Shostakovich – Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op 70 The latest all Russian instalment in…

  May 20, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Piano Soviet Union

  Igor Levit plays Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues at the Barbican review *****

  Igor Levit Barbican Hall, 26th January 2020 Dmitri Shostakovich – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 If you going to be inspired by anyone to write a monumental piano piece than JS Bach is a good place to start, specifically his Well Tempered Clavier collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues.…

  March 10, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Piano Soviet Union Symphony

  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…

  December 1, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Symphony

  Prom 15, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra review *****

  Prom 15 – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)  Royal Albert Hall, 30th July 2019 Beethoven – Symphony No 2 Shostakovich – Symphony No 5  It always surprises just how few Proms concerts tick all the boxes for the Tourist. I can usually only manage 4 or 5 in…

  September 15, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Piano trio and percussion at the Wigmore Hall review ***

  Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Inon Barnatan (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Owen Gunnell (percussion), Sam Walton (percussion) Wigmore Hall, 11th February 2019 Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 (arr. Eduard Steuermann for piano trio) Rolf Wallin – Realismos Mágicos Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony No.…

  February 27, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Opera

  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,…

  January 15, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London War

  Brodsky Quartet at Kings Place review *****

  Brodsky Quartet, In Time of War Kings Place, 18th November 2018 Karen Tanaka – At the grave of Beethoven Erwin Schulhoff – String Quartet No 1 Shostakovich – String Quartet No 8 Dave Brubeck – Regret George Crumb – Black Angels It’s been donkey’s years since I last saw the…

  December 3, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical London

  Emerson String Quartet at Milton Court review ****

  The Emerson String Quartet Milton Court Concert Hall, 8th November 2018 Britten – String Quartet No 3, Op 94 Shostakovich – String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110 Beethoven – String Quartet No 7 in F major, Op 59 No 1, “Razumovsky” You still see some venerable rock…

  November 21, 2018
• Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture London

  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…

  November 9, 2018
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Russia

  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,…

  October 25, 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

  Shostakovich from the Philharmonia and Ashkenazy review ****

  Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), James Ehnes (violin) Royal Festival Hall, 29th April 2018 Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto no. 1 in A minor, Op.77 Symphony no. 4 in C minor, Op.43 Apparently Vladimir Ashkenazy was at the premiere of the Fourth Symphony. In 1961, in Moscow, 25 years after it…

  May 7, 2018