United Kingdom Wagner, Bruckner: Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Soddy (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London. 26.3.2023. (JR)
Concert Reviews
The complete list of posted concert reviews
Todmorden’s Purely Classical concert
United Kingdom Elgar, Nielsen, Brahms: Frederico Paixão (flute), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 25.3.2023. (RBa)
Once more, the RSNO celebrates the music of John Williams
United Kingdom John Williams at the Oscars: Tommy Pearson (presenter), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Robert Baxter (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 24.3.2023. (SRT)
Mahler’s vision of the Beethoven Ninth excitingly revealed by Vasily Petrenko and the RPO
United Kingdom Beethoven and Mahler: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), The Bach Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.3.2023. (MB)
The highs and lows of Nikolai Lugansky’s ‘MaRachthon’ at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Rachmaninov: Nikolai Lugansky (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.3.2023. (JC)
Accentus – 30 ans! was a stimulating, refreshing and magnificent Insula Orchestra concert
France Accentus, 30 ans!: accentus, Hélène Carpentier (soprano), Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), Florian Sempey (baritone), Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor), Cécile Trelluyer (lighting). La Seine Musicale, Paris, 18.3.2023. (CC)
On an afternoon of Scandinavian music, it is Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto which dazzles Edinburgh
United Kingdom Linde, Khachaturian, Sibelius: Nemanja Radulović (violinist), Swedish Philharmonia / Jaime Martín (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 19.3.2023. (GT)
Exquisite B Minor Mass from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Václav Luks
United Kingdom Bach: Julia Doyle (soprano), Anna Devin (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Václav Luks (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 19.3.2023. (JR)