Concert Reviews – Page 15 – Seen and Heard International

LPO at the Royal Festival Hall: Fleming’s artistry in Richard Strauss and Guggeis’s propulsive Wagner

18/03/202506/03/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, R. Strauss – Renée Fleming sings Strauss: Renée Fleming (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 5.3.2025. (JPr)

Thomas Guggeis conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra © LPO

Distinguished Nielsen and barnstorming Rachmaninoff from Daniel Raiskin in Vancouver

18/03/202506/03/2025 by Geoffrey Newman

Canada Vasks, Rachmaninoff, Nielsen: Alexei Volodin (piano), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Raiskin (conductor). Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 21.2.2025. (GN)

Conductor Daniel Raiskin © Dariusz Kulesza

Violinist Simone Lamsma’s thrilling Brahms with the NSO in Dublin

18/03/202506/03/2025 by Robert Beattie

Ireland R. Schumann, Brahms: Simone Lamsma (violin), National Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Shelley (conductor). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 28.2.2025. (RB)

Alexander Shelley conducts violinist Simone Lamsma and the NSO © Caoimhe

An epic Shostakovich Marathon in Southampton, in aid of Cancer Research

18/03/202506/03/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Shostakovich: Jinah Shim, Keelan Carew, Paul Ingram (piano), Mark Cox (trumpet), Austin Lam (cello), Orchestra / Craig Lawton and Paul Ingram (conductors). Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, 2.3.2025. (CK)

Pianist Jinah Shim playing Shostakovich with the Orchestra

The glory of the Double Bass: Will Duerden at Wigmore Hall

18/03/202505/03/2025 by Marc Bridle

United Kingdom Various: Will Duerden (double bass), Svitlana Kosenko (piano). Wigmore Hall, 4.3.2025. (MBr)

Anything but a run-of-the-mill Barbican Hall Chopin recital from Louie Lortie

18/03/202504/03/2025 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Chopin: Louis Lortie (piano). Barbican Hall, London, 27.2.2025. (MB)

Louis Lortie plays Chopin © Ed Maitland Smith

Vikingur Ólafsson goes solo with Bach in San Francisco after Yuja Wang is sidelined

18/03/202504/03/2025 by Harvey Steiman

United States Bach: Vikingur Ólafsson (piano). San Francisco Symphony Great Performers Series, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 2.3.2025. (HS)

Vikingur Ólafsson playing the Goldberg Variations © Kristen Locken

A concert of unique programming and insight from Baeva, LPO and Omer Meir Wellber

18/03/202504/03/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Haydn, Mahler/Schnittke, Tchaikovsky: Alena Baeva (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor/harpsichord/piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 1.3.2025. (CC)