United States Muffat, Handel, Bach: Concerto Copenhagen / Lars Ulrick Mortensen (artistic director & harpsichord). Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, 25.2.2025. (RP)
Concerto Copenhagen delights in the charms of the Baroque at Carnegie Hall
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Sir Stephen Hough’s sparkling Piano Concerto sits comfortably between the BSO’s Brahms and Elgar
United Kingdom Brahms, Hough, Elgar: Sir Stephen Hough (piano), Walter van Dyk (speaker), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 27.2.2025. (CK)
Apollo’s Fire sparks in Haydn, Mozart and Bologne
United States Mozart, Bologne, Haydn – ‘Classical Sparks’: Alan Choo (violin), Jonathan Pierce Rhodes (tenor), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). First United Methodist Church, Akron, 27.2.2025. (MSJ)
Marios Papadopoulos’s musical dialogue with his Oxford Philharmonic at the Barbican
United Kingdom Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.2.2025. (AK)
Richard Strauss and Grieg with Osborne, Gardner and the LPO
United Kingdom León, Grieg, Richard Strauss: Steven Osborne (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.2.2025. (MBr)
A mix of inspiration and frustration in Lucas Debargue’s Vancouver recital
Canada Fauré, Beethoven, Chopin: Lucas Debargue (piano). Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 17.2.2025. (GN)
Philharmonia and Paavo Järvi: Spiky Stravinsky and occasionally turgid Tüür fail to lift the spirits
United Kingdom Stravinsky, Tüür: Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Philharmonia / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 27.2.2025. (JR)
Baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz blaze gloriously in New York recital
United States Schubert, Loewe, Vaughan Williams: Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano). Park Avenue Armory, New York, 24.2.2025. (RP)
