Tag: Royal Festival Hall
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The Swingling Sixties: the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review *****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, The Swingles, London Philharmonic Choir Royal Festival Hall, 8th December 2018 Elizabeth Atherton – soprano Maria Ostroukhova – mezzo-soprano Sam Furness – tenor Joel Williams – tenor Theodore Platt – baritone Joshua Bloom – bass Stravinsky – Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) Stravinsky – Threni…
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Thomas Ades and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Ades, Kirill Gerstein (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 26th September 2018 Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements Thomas Ades – In Seven Days (Concerto for piano and orchestra) Witold Lutoslawski – Symphony No 3 Thomas Ades is a talented chap. As composer, conductor and performer he…
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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…
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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…
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Thierry Fischer, Neville Creed, Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), William Davies (treble) Royal Festival Hall, 24th March 2018 Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Violin Concerto in D Credo, Ave Maria, Pater Noster Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms I have banged on before about the virtues of Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss,…
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Stravinsky from the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Alexander Ghindin (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 7th February 2018 Igor Stravinsky – Scherzo fantastique, Op 3 Igor Stravinsky – Funeral Song, Op 5 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op 30 Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird (original version) My favourite concert of…
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Nicola Benedetti and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Marin Alsop, Nicola Benedetti Royal Festival Hall, 4th February 2018 Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D major “Stardom” in the classical music world is a curious thing. To get there ideally you need to be a…
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Colin Currie Group at Kings Place review ****
Colin Currie Group Kings Place, 20th January 2018 Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood New York Counterpoint Mallet Quartet Drumming Part 1 Vermont Counterpoint Quartet (2013) So off to Kings Place for another immersion into the sound world of Steve Reich guided by his finest living advocates (probably), the…
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Richard Goode at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
Richard Goode Royal Festival Hall, 31st May 2017 JS Bach – Partita No 6 BWV 830 Chopin – Nocturne Op 62/1 Chopin – Mazurka Op 41/3 Chopin – Mazurka Op 41/4 Chopin – Mazurka – Op 50/3 Chopin – Polonaise-Fantasie Op 61 Beethoven – Sonata No 28 Op 101 Beethoven…
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Steve Reich’s Drumming and Tehillim at the Royal Festival Hall review *****
The Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals Royal Festival Hall, 5th May 2017 Steve Reich – Tehillim 1981 Steve Reich – Drumming 1971 There are a handful of sacred founding texts when it comes to the world of US minimalist music. Terry Riley’s In C certainly, John Adams’s Harmonielehre and Short…
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Verdi Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall review ***
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach Choir Royal Festival Hall, 13th April 2017 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko – Conductor Maija Kovalevska – Soprano Karen Cargill – Mezzo-Soprano Saimir Pirgu – Tenor Alexander Vinogradov – Bass The Bach Choir Verdi – Requiem Right. Off to the RFH with BUD for a bit…
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