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• 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
• 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
• Albums Classical Music Concert Culture London

  SCO Winds at Wigmore Hall review ****

  Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists Wigmore Hall, 12th February 2018 Beethoven – Sextet in E flat, Op 71 Poulenc – Sonata for clarinet and bassoon Beethoven – Octet in E flat, Op 103 A rare opportunity for completists to hear performances of Beethoven’s Sextet and Octet written for wind instruments.…

  February 24, 2018
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Early Music London Renaissance

  Britten Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall review *****

  Britten Sinfonia Wigmore Hall, 24th January 2018 Heinrich Biber – Mystery Sonata No 1 “The Annunciation” Philip Glass – Orbit Leo Chadburn – Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe Arvo Part – Spiegel am Spiegel WA Mozart – Piano Trio No 3 K502 There is something of the spirit of punk…

  January 30, 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
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Renaissance

  The Cardinal’s Musick at Wigmore Hall review ****

  The Cardinal’s Musick, Andrew Carwood (director) Wigmore Hall, 4th December 2017 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) – Missa Hodie Christus natus est Anon – Gaudete, Hail Mary full of grace, Quem Pastores, Salutation Carol Jacob Handl (1550-1591) – Mirabile mysterium Richard Pygott (c.1485-1549) – Quid petis O fili Tomás Luis…

  December 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
• Classical Music Culture London

  Ensemble InterContemporain at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Ensemble InterContemporain Wigmore Hall, 20th June 2017 Debussy – Premiere rapsodie Bruno Maderna – Viola Messiaen – Le merle noir Philippe Schoeller – Madrigal Luciano Berio – Sequenza 1 Ravel – Violin Sonata Matteo Franceschini – Les Excentriques Ensemble InterContemporain was founded in 1972 by Pierre Boulez and tenures 31…

  July 1, 2017
• Classical Music Culture London

  Mahan Esfahani at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Mahan Esfahani Wigmore Hall, 5th June 2017 Thomas Tomkins – Pavane in A Minor Giles Farnaby – Woody-Cock Henry Cowell – Set of Four WF Bach – Sonata E Flat Major Steve Reich (arr Esfahani) – Piano Phase The harpsichord is certainly not my favourite instrument. (Electric guitar since you…

  June 10, 2017