Colin Clarke – Page 44 – Seen and Heard International

A musical Ukraine tribute and other rich rewards from Gidon Kremer and friends

10/05/202222/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Schumann, Igor Laboda, Victoria Polevá, Rachmaninov: Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello), Georgijs Osokins (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.2.2022. (CC)

Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello) and Georgijs Osokins (piano) (c) Ben Reason

Superb OAE concert in all respects; but Faust’s Schumann Violin Concerto was simply revelatory

10/05/202216/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Schumann – Part of The Wilderness Pleases season: Isabelle Faust (violin), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.2.2022 (CC)

The whole London Mozart Players and Sheku Kanneh-Mason Fairfield Halls experience was positively magical

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glinka, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky/Ravel – A Fresh Take on Shostakovich: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), James Mayhew (artist), London Mozart Players / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 13.2.2022. (CC)

Jonathan Bloxham conducts the London Mozart Players in *Pictures at an Exhibition*

Memorable – and not so memorable – music is a feature of Bychkov’s BBC SO Barbican concert

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Dessner, R. Strauss, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 11.2.2022. (CC)

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO (c) Mark Allan

Highly memorable LPO concert with the Brett Dean Viola Concerto lingering in the memory

10/05/202211/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Nielsen, Brett Dean, Mahler: Lawrence Power (viola), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Hannu Lintu (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 9.2.2022. (CC)

Vivaldi at Covent Garden for the first time: Bajazet is gripping from first to last acts

27/03/202209/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Vivaldi, Bajazet: Soloists, Irish Baroque Orchestra / Peter Whelan (director). Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 7.2.2021. (CC)

Gianluca Margheri (Bajazet), James Laing (Tamerlano) and Eric Jurenas (Andronico) (c) Kip Carroll

English National Opera’s expertly revived, strongly sung and fluidly conducted La bohème

27/03/202204/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Ben Glassberg (conductor). London Coliseum, 3.2.2022. (CC)

David Junghoon Kim (Rodolfo) and Sinéad Campbell-Wallace (Mimì) © Genevieve Girling

The Mozartists look back at 1772 in their fabulous Cadogan Hall performance

27/03/202229/01/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom 1772 – A Retrospective (MOZART 250): Jessica Cale, Chiara Skerath (sopranos), The Mozartists / Ian Page (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 27.1.2022. (CC)

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