United Kingdom Gilbert and Sullivan, Sasha Regan’s All-Male H.M.S. Pinafore: Preview performance. Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 16.3.2022. (JB)
The love which dare not speak its name beams brightly at Wilton’s Music Hall
Jack Buckley
Meeting the Schubert duo at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Schubert: James Newby (baritone) and Simon Lepper (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 25.2.2022. (JPr)
Classical Vauxhall: Classical Done Differently at St Mark’s Kennington
Classical Vauxhall – 10 to 13 February 2022 The third Classical Vauxhall Festival had already given their first concert (of five) at St Mark’s Kennington when I received information about their imaginative and appetising programmes. After the end of the festival they were able to let me have a recording of the concert of 10 … Read more
Christian Blackshaw alla Mozart for the composer’s birthday at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Mozart: Christian Blackshaw (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 27.1.2022. (JB)
Revisitation of the Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings
Haunting or bewitching are words that come to mind to the hundreds of thousands of those who have experienced Samuel Barber’s 1936 Adagio for Strings. Or the countless millions whose lives have been unwittingly changed by eight minutes of music of which they could not name composer or title. Composer and title are so inextricably … Read more
Puritans stay away: this ENO HMS Pinafore is pure unadulterated fun
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Chris Hopkins (conductor). London Coliseum, 29.10.2021. (JB)
Magic Mozart colonised in London with British-Chinese wunderkind Leia Zhu
United Kingdom Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven: Leia Zhu (violin), London Mozart Players / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Fairfield Halls, London, 10.10.2021. (JB)
Glorious 75th Anniversary Concert by and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
United Kingdom Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 75th Anniversary Concert – Delius, Elgar, Walton: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Chorus (chorusmaster: Gavin Carr), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 21.9.2021. (JB)
