Concert Reviews – Page 165 – Seen and Heard International

Dunedin Consort’s Ronald Barthes project is an experience that works as a whole

02/06/2022 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom A Lover’s Discourse: Music by Gesualso, Marenzio, Monteverdi, de Rore; words by Roland Barthes: Dunedin Consort, Nicholas Mulroy (director), Film by Arms & Legs. Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, 31.5.2022. (SRT)

A Very British Evening with Mark Padmore and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra

02/06/202201/06/2022 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Vaughan Williams, Britten, Tippett: Mark Padmore (tenor), Thomas Müller (horn), Ryszard Groblewski (viola), Zürcher Kammerorchester / Duncan Ward (conductor). Tonhalle Zurich, 31.5.2022. (JR)

Master pianists combine in a thrilling two-piano Wigmore Hall recital

01/06/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Adams, Schumann, Debussy, and Stravinsky: Leif Ove Andsnes, Marc-André Hamelin (pianos). Wigmore Hall, London, 30.5.2022. (MB)

Marc-André Hamelin (left) and Leif Ove Andsnes (c) Chris Lee

Intriguing, yet puzzling, Bach Mass in B minor at the International Bachfest in Schaffhausen

31/05/2022 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Bach: Sunhae Im (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Benno Schachtner (countertenor), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass), RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / René Jacobs (conductor). Stadtkirche St Johann, Schaffhausen, 29.5.2022. (JR)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (c) Uwe Arens

Gerstein’s behemoth technique made this a memorable Queen Elizabeth Hall recital

30/05/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Stravinsky, Schubert, Liszt: Kirill Gerstein (piano). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. 25.5.2022. (CC)

Shokhakimov’s Strasbourg Philharmonic in contrasting Prokofiev and Shostakovich

30/05/202227/05/2022 by Colin Clarke

France Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Simone Lamsma (violin), Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor). Salle Érasme, Palais de la Musique et des Congrès, Strasbourg, 19.5.2022. (CC)

Simone Lamsma (violin), Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor) and Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra (c) Nicolas Rosès

Carnegie Hall hosts star-studded benefit concert in support of Ukraine

28/05/202226/05/2022 by Rick Perdian

United States Various, Concert for Ukraine: Dignitaries, Performers, Richard Gere (host). Carnegie Hall, New York, 23.5.2022. (RP)

Adrienne Warren and Jessica Vosk at Carnegie Hall’s *Concert for Ukraine* © Chris Lee

Thielemann and Staatskapelle Dresden was a masterclass which had me struggling for superlatives

26/05/202226/05/2022 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Bruckner: Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Tonhalle Zürich, 24.5.2022. (JR)

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