Concert Reviews – Page 184 – Seen and Heard International

Superb OAE concert in all respects; but Faust’s Schumann Violin Concerto was simply revelatory

10/05/202216/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Schumann – Part of The Wilderness Pleases season: Isabelle Faust (violin), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.2.2022 (CC)

Così fan tutte is another wonderful ensemble achievement for Saffron Opera Group

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte (concert performance): Chorus (chorus master: James Davey) and Orchestra of Saffron Opera Group / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 13.2.2022. (JPr)

Jessica Cale (Fiordiligi), Liam Bonthrone (Ferrando), Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (Dorabella) and Marcus Farnsworth (Guglielmo) (c) Roger King

The whole London Mozart Players and Sheku Kanneh-Mason Fairfield Halls experience was positively magical

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glinka, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky/Ravel – A Fresh Take on Shostakovich: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), James Mayhew (artist), London Mozart Players / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 13.2.2022. (CC)

Jonathan Bloxham conducts the London Mozart Players in *Pictures at an Exhibition*

Spektral Quartet creates its own environment in a world premiere from Samuel Adams

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Harvey Steiman

United States Glass, Schubert, Samuel Adams: Spektral Quartet (Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg [violins], Doyle Armbrust [viola], Russell Rolen [cello]) Presented by Cal Performances, Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 13.2.2022. (HS)

Maeve Feinberg, Clara Lyon (violins), Doyle Armbrust (viola), Russell Rolen (cello) © Jocelyn Chuang

Memorable – and not so memorable – music is a feature of Bychkov’s BBC SO Barbican concert

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Dessner, R. Strauss, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 11.2.2022. (CC)

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO (c) Mark Allan

Takashi Yoshimatsu and the SF Symphony show how to soar like a bird through music

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Harvey Steiman

United States Various: Wu Man (pipa), San Francisco Symphony / Perry So (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 11.2.2022. (HS)

James Lee Wyatt III plays the singing bowls in Takashi Yoshimatsu’s *The Age of Birds* (c) Stefan Cohen

Guest conductor Asher Fisch leads the Seattle Symphony in a memorable Mahler

10/05/202212/02/2022 by Zach Carstensen

United States George Walker, Mahler: Russell Thomas (tenor), Kelly O’Connor (mezzo-soprano), Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Asher Fisch (conductor). Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 10.2.2022. (ZC)

Kelly O’Connor, Russell Thomas, Asher Fisch & the Seattle Symphony (c) James Holt

RSNO’s celebration of John Williams, the master manipulator of emotions, at 90

10/05/202212/02/2022 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom John Williams 90th Birthday Celebration: Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Anthony Weeden (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 11.2.2022. (SRT)

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