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• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Minimalism

  Glass and Reich: LSO at the Barbican review ***

  Divine Geometry: London Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, Simone Dinnerstein (piano) Barbican Hall, 29th November 2018 Charles Coleman – Drenched Charles Coleman – Bach Inspired Philip Glass – Piano Concerto No 3 Kristjan Jarvi – Too Hot to Handel Steve Reich – Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Funny one this. As…

  December 23, 2018
• Baroque Church Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at St Luke’s Old St review *****

  Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) LSO St Luke’s Old St JS Bach Sonata no 3 for violin and harpsichord in E major BWV 1016 Partita no 2 for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 Sonata no 1 for violin and harpsichord in B minor BWV 1014 Toccata for…

  July 2, 2018
• Amsterdam Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture

  Christoph Sietzen and the Wave Quartet at the Concertgebouw review ****

  Christoph Sietzen, Wave Quartet (Bogdan Bacanu, Vladi Petrov, Emiko Uchiyama, Christoph Sietzen) Het Concert-Gebouw, Recital Hall, 16th May 2018 Emmanuel Séjourné – Attraction for marimba, vibraphone and tape Iannis Xenakis – Part B (from ‘Rebonds’) for percussion J.S. Bach/Brahms – Chaconne (from Second Partita in D, BWV 1004) (arr. B.…

  May 28, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Bach: The Late Concertos from the Feinstein Ensemble at Kings Place review ****

  The Feinstein Ensemble, Catherine Mason, Miki Takahashi, Sarah Moffatt (violins), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), Martin Feinstein (flute, director) Kings Place, 13th April 2018 JS Bach Triple Concerto in A minor for flute, violin & harpsichord BWV 1044 Concerto in D minor for violin (reconstructed from BWV 1052) Concerto in F for…

  April 25, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) Wigmore Hall, 9th April 2018 JS Bach – Violin Sonatas 4, 5 and 2, BWV 1017, 1018 and 1015, Johan Jacob Froberger Suite No 12 in C minor for harpsichord, Biber – Violin Sonata No 5 in E minor, Mystery Sonatas Passacaglia in G…

  April 19, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Culture Early Music London

  Rachel Podger and VOCES8 at Kings Place review ****

  Rachel Podger, VOCES8 – A Guardian Angel Kings Place, 28th March 2018 Orlando Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears Plainchant – Pater Noster Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Rosary Sonata No 16 Passacaglia “A Guardian Angel” Jonathan Dove – into thy hands Nicola Matteis – Passaggio rotto, Fantasia, Movimento incognito…

  April 9, 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
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London

  Peter Wispelwey (cellist) at Kings Place review ****

  Peter Wispelwey, cello Cello Unwrapped: Bach Through Time Concert III. Kings Place Hall 1, 8th December 2017 JS Bach – Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007 Benjamin Britten – Cello Suite No 3, Op 87 Gyorgy Ligeti – Sonata for solo cello JS Bach – Cello Suite No…

  December 27, 2017
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

  Bach and Telemann: Academy of Ancient Music at Milton Court review *****

  Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Cicic (director and violin), Rachel Brown (flute and recorder), Rachel Beckett (recorder), Alistair Ross (harpsichord)  Bach and Telemann: Reversed Fortunes, Milton Court Concert Hall, 7th December 2017 I see I am now close to being a Academy of Ancient Music groupie. Not in a sinister…

  December 13, 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

  Fretwork at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Fretwork (Asako Morikawa, Joanna Levine, Sam Stadlen, Emily Ashton, Richard Boothby) Wigmore Hall, 18th September 2017 JS Bach – The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I-XI, XIV Fretwork are one of those marvellous groups of dedicated adventurers who have brought Early, Renaissance and Baroque music back to life. There was…

  September 29, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin at the Wigmore Hall review *****

  Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Bernhard Forck Wigmore Hall, 29th June 2017 JS Bach – Suite No 2 in A Minor BWV 1067a JS Bach – Violin Concerto in E Major BWV 1042 JS Bach – Violin Concerto in A Minor BWV 1041 CPE Bach – String Symphony…

  July 7, 2017