United Kingdom Bacewicz, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky: Johan Dalene (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Marta Gardolíńska (conductor). BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.2.2022. (PCG)
Concert Reviews
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A musical Ukraine tribute and other rich rewards from Gidon Kremer and friends
United Kingdom Schumann, Igor Laboda, Victoria Polevá, Rachmaninov: Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello), Georgijs Osokins (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.2.2022. (CC)
Audience and performers enjoy the SCO Chamber Ensemble on an Edinburgh Sunday afternoon
United Kingdom Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert: SCO Chamber Ensemble (Maxim Emelyanychev [fortepiano], Stephanie Gonley [violin], Fiona Winning [viola], Philip Higham [cello], Nikita Naumov [double bass], Maximiliano Martín [clarinet]). Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 20.2.2022. (SRT)
Playfulness and panache from Barbara Hannigan and the LSO
United Kingdom Copland, Haydn, Offenbach, Weill: Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor), Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), London Symphony Orchestra. Barbican Hall, London, 17.2.2022. (CS)
Explosion of orchestral and vocal color in San Francisco from works by Simon, Price, Brahms and Franck
United States Various: Melody Wilson (mezzo-soprano), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (Anthony Trecek-King: director), San Francisco Symphony / Earl Lee, Akiko Fujimoto, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser (conductors). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 17.2.2022. (HS)
Splendid playing from an animated and animating Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer
United Kingdom Stravinsky: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 17.2.2022. (MB)
Jerusalem Quartet continue their satisfying and thoughtful exploration of Beethoven quartets
United Kingdom Beethoven: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavolvsky, Sergei Bressler [violins], Jonathan Brown [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 16.2.2022. (MB)
Music by twentieth-century English composers wows the Russians in Yekaterinburg
Russian Federation Birtwistle, Vaughan-Williams, Walton: Daniel Müller-Schott (cellist), Urals Philharmonic Orchestra / Oliver Zeffman (conductor). Grand Hall of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, 27.1.2022. (GT)