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Concert Reviews

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Sir Stephen Hough’s sparkling Piano Concerto sits comfortably between the BSO’s Brahms and Elgar

01/03/2025 by Chris Kettle

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brahms, Hough, Elgar: Sir Stephen Hough (piano), Walter van Dyk (speaker), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 27.2.2025. (CK)

Actor Walter van Dyk as Edward Elgar with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra © BSO

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Apollo’s Fire sparks in Haydn, Mozart and Bologne

01/03/2025 by Mark S Jordan

United StatesUnited 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)

Violinist Alan Choo

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Marios Papadopoulos’s musical dialogue with his Oxford Philharmonic at the Barbican

01/03/2025 by Agnes Kory

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.2.2025. (AK)

Pianists Marios Papadopoulos and Martha Argerich play Ravel © Apple and Biscuit

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Richard Strauss and Grieg with Osborne, Gardner and the LPO

01/03/2025 by Marc Bridle

United KingdomUnited Kingdom León, Grieg, Richard Strauss: Steven Osborne (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.2.2025. (MBr)

Edward Gardner conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra © Mark Allan

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A mix of inspiration and frustration in Lucas Debargue’s Vancouver recital

01/03/2025 by Geoffrey Newman

CanadaCanada Fauré, Beethoven, Chopin: Lucas Debargue (piano). Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 17.2.2025. (GN)

Lucas Debargue © Silvester Law

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Philharmonia and Paavo Järvi: Spiky Stravinsky and occasionally turgid Tüür fail to lift the spirits

28/02/2025 by John Rhodes

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Stravinsky, Tüür: Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Philharmonia / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 27.2.2025. (JR)

Paavo Järvi © Luca Migliore

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Baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz blaze gloriously in New York recital

27/02/2025 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States Schubert, Loewe, Vaughan Williams: Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano). Park Avenue Armory, New York, 24.2.2025. (RP)

Konstantin Krimmel (baritone) © Da Ping Luo

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Lunchtime at Wigmore Hall: Steven Osborne’s Schubert restored the spirits and nourished the soul

27/02/2025 by Christopher Sallon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bach, MacMillan, Weir and Schubert: Steven Osborne (piano). Wigmore Hall, London. 24.2.2025. (CSa)

Steven Osborne © Ryan Buchanan

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