United Kingdom Beethoven: NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 19.1.2025. (CC)
NOVO Quartet at the Wigmore Hall show they are going from strength to strength
Concert Reviews
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WNO Orchestra celebrate style hongrois in their New Year’s Concert
United Kingdom A New Year’s Celebration: WNO Orchestra / David Adams (violin, leader, concertmaster) and Associate Artists (Erin Rossington, soprano, and William Stevens, bass). Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 17.1.2025. (LJ)
NSO’s memorable Shostakovich Seventh Symphony performance in Dublin
Ireland Rachmaninov, Shostakovich: Lise de la Salle (piano), National Symphony Orchestra / Diego Maltheuz (conductor). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 17.1.2025. (RB)
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Haydn, Kurtág, and Adams in a welcome return to the LPO
United Kingdom On the Transmigration of Souls – Haydn, Kurtág, Adams: Anna Devin (soprano), Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano), Rupert Charlesworth (tenor), Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass), Tiffin Youth Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, Jonathan Green (sound designer), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 18.1.2025. (CC)
Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony’s Barbican Hall musical journey from Venezuela to Russia
United Kingdom Odisea – Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky: Jorge Glem (Venezuelan cuatro), Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.2.2025. (CC)
John Adams’s new piano concerto sashays with flair in world premiere with the San Francisco Symphony
United States Ives, Adams, Orff: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Susanna Phillips (soprano), Arnold Livingston Geis (tenor), Will Liverman (baritone), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (director: Jenny Wong), San Francisco Girls Chorus (director: Valérie Saint-Agathe), San Francisco Symphony / David Robertson (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 16.1.2025. (HS)
Intense, all-encompassing Mahler from Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
United Kingdom Mahler: Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Tiffin Choirs children’s choir, London Symphony Chorus, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15.1.2025. (CK)
Somewhat mixed bag of Mendelssohn and Liszt Lieder from Lucy Crowe and Karim Sulayman
United Kingdom Mendelssohn and Liszt: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Karim Sulayman (tenor), Julius Drake (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 14.1.2025. (MB)
