Concert Reviews – Seen and Heard International

The RNSO excel in Anna Clyne’s brilliant concerto and Shostakovich’s monumental war epitaph

08/04/2025 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Clyne, Shostakovich: Jess Gillam (saxophone), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Jonathon Heyward (conductor), Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 5.4.2025. (GT)

Jonathon Heyward conducts Jess Gillam (saxophone) and the RSNO © Katie McKean

Etched in light: Mozart and Mendelssohn from Fujita and Biondi in Washington

08/04/2025 by Edward Sava-Segal

United States R. Schumann, Mozart, Mendelssohn: Mao Fujita (piano), National Symphony Orchestra / Fabio Biondi (conductor). Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, Washington, 5.4.2025. (ES-S)

Artistic integrity, as well as musicality, was a major feature of this Budapest Strings concert

08/04/2025 by Agnes Kory

Hungary Webern, Mendelsohn, Arensky: Gábor Farkas (piano), Budapest Strings / János Pilz (leader). Solti Hall of the Music Academy, Budapest, 4.4.2025. (AK)

Pianist Gábor Farkas with Budapest Strings © 4K Media Studio

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC SO celebrate and continue the Boulez programming legacy

06/04/2025 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Berg and Debussy: Sophie Bevan (soprano), BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master: Neil Ferris), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 4.4.2025. (MB)

Apollo’s Fire and vocalists find grace and glory in Bach’s Mass in B minor

06/04/2025 by Mark S Jordan

United States J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Rebecca Myers (soprano), Aryssa Leigh Burrs, Gabriela Estephanie Solís (mezzo-sopranos), Emily Marvosh (contralto), Jacob Perry (tenor), Edward Vogel (baritone), Charles Wesley Evans (baritone), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio, 4.4.2025. (MSJ)

The RNSO excel in Anna Clyne’s brilliant concerto and Shostakovich’s monumental war epitaph

Etched in light: Mozart and Mendelssohn from Fujita and Biondi in Washington

Artistic integrity, as well as musicality, was a major feature of this Budapest Strings concert

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC SO celebrate and continue the Boulez programming legacy

Apollo’s Fire and vocalists find grace and glory in Bach’s Mass in B minor

Jurowski and the LPO’s phenomenal performance of a wonderful Lyatoshynsky symphony

Pianist Joyce Yang finds emotional throughlines in works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Robert Schumann

Joyce DiDonato’s Wigmore Hall Winterreise: A journey both magnificent and misconceived