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• 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
• Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Stravinsky, Debussy and Shostakovich: LPO and Leif Ove Andsnes at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 18th April 2018 Stravinsky – Symphony in C, Stravinsky – Tango arr. for orchestra Debussy – Fantaisie for piano and orchestra Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 54 I am pretty confident that no-one reads…

  April 29, 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 Culture London

  Laura van der Heijden and Petr Limonov at Wigmore Hall review ***

  Laura van der Heijden (cello), Petr Limonov (piano) Wigmore Hall, 2nd April 2018 Britten – Cello Sonata in C major, Op 65 Shostakovich – Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 21st December 1960. Britten and Shostakovich are sharing a box at the Festival Hall. That’s right the two greatest…

  April 15, 2018
• Classical Music Culture London

  Quatuor pour la fin du temps at St John’s Smith Square review *****

  Alban Gerhardt cello, James Ehnes violin, Jean Johnson clarinet, Steven Osborne piano St John’s Smith Square, 14th November Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67, Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps I don’t suppose Olivier Messiaen had any idea, when he composed his chamber…

  November 20, 2017
• Baroque Classical Music Culture London

  Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall review ****

  Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 3rd November 2017 Bach The Art of Fugue Contrapunctus 1 to 4 Mozart Piano Concerto 15 Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence There is something truly thrilling about watching a group of string players,…

  November 11, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Beethoven and Shostakovich: LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ***

  London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Inon Barnatan Royal Festival Hall, 27th October 2017 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 5 “Emperor” Shostakovich – Symphony No 7 “Leningrad” Off to the Festival Hall for a couple of big beasts of the repertoire (or at least the repertoire I like). Yet I have…

  November 8, 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
• Classical Music Culture London

  Alexander Melnikov and the Latvian Radio Choir at Cadogan Hall review ****

  Alexander Melnikov (piano), Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava Proms Chamber Music No 5, Cadogan Hall, 14th August 2017 Dimitri Shostakovich – Preludes and Fugues Op 87 – Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 7. 8 Dimitri Shostakovich – Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets, Op 88 – Nos 5,6,7,8,9 Previous…

  August 19, 2017