November 2021 – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

Opera Holland Park’s new film of William Walton’s The Bear is thoroughly entertaining

30/12/202108/11/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Walton, The Bear: Soloists, Members of City of London Sinfonia (Fran Hills [piano], Ruth Funnell [violin], Christopher Rawley [bassoon], Stephanie Beck [harp] and Glyn Matthews [percussion]) / John Andrews (conductor). Filmed at Stone House during April 2020 and streaming from 9 to 13.11.2021 (click here). (JPr)

Richard Burkhard (Smirnov) and Clare Presland (Popova)

Mark Wigglesworth directs a magnificent performance of Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony

30/12/202108/11/2021 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Mozart, Shostakovich: Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Peter Rose (bass), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). City Halls, Glasgow, 5.11.2021. (GT)

Mark Wigglesworth (c) Sim Canetty-Clarke

Edward Gardner and the LPO make Bluebeard’s Castle a shattering experience

30/12/202108/11/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Haydn, Bartók: Ildikó Komlósi (soprano), John Relyea (bass), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 6.11.2021. (MB)

LPO, Ildikó Komlósi, Edward Gardner and John Relyea (c) Mark Allan

BBC NOW play more Grace Williams and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and a Carl Nielsen symphony

30/12/202108/11/2021 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Grace Williams, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, Nielsen: Madeleine Mitchell (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Jamie Phillips (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 6.11.2021. (PCG)

Madeleine Mitchell was the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s *The Lark Ascending*

HGO’s vibrant, glowing Le nozze di Figaro is proof positive of the eternal durability of Mozart’s masterpiece

29/03/202507/11/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists; Chamber Orchestra of Hampstead Garden Opera / Thomas Payne (conductor). Jacksons Lane Theatre, Highgate, London, 5.11.2021. (CC)

HGO’s *Le nozze di Figaro* © Laurent Compagnon

Superb singing and theatrical audacity from Theatre of Sound delivers a most gripping Bluebeard’s Castle

30/12/202107/11/2021 by AUTHOR

United Kingdom Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle: Soloists of London Sinfonietta / Stephen Higgins (conductor). Theatre of Sound at Stone Nest, London, 6.11.2021. (KMcD)

Susan Bullock (Judith) and Gerald Finley (Bluebeard) (c) Mihaela Bodlovic

Get sucked into Gerald Barry’s musical vortex by this new film of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

30/12/202107/11/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Ireland Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground: Irish Chamber Orchestra / André de Ridder (conductor). Filmed (directed by Hugh O’Conor) at the National Opera House, Wexford and streaming (click here) from 5.11 to 5.12.2021. (JPr)

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in an interesting contrast of Mendelssohn and Shostakovich

30/12/202106/11/2021 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Shostakovich: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Streamed on Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall from the Philharmonie, 29.10.2021. (GT)

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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