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Tag: Dmitry Shostakovich

  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall review ****

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Jan Mracek Cadogan Hall, 16th June 2017 Berio – Sequenza V for solo trombone Prokofiev – Quintet in G Minor Debussy – Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune, Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Shostakovich – Symphony No 5 A welcome innovation from the RPO at its Cadogan…

  • London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review ****

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir Mark Elder, London Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, 7th May 2017 Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov – Prelude to Khovanshchina Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 Shostakovich – Symphony No.15 in A major Op.141 Who’d be a Russian composer eh. Mussorgsky drinks himself to death at 42…

  • Hagen Quartet at the Wigmore Hall review ****

    Hagen Quartet Wigmore Hall, 29th April 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73 String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major Op. 142 String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor Op. 144 To paraphrase a great man about a great band “always different, always…