Concert Reviews – Page 29 – Seen and Heard International

Haydn’s The Seasons in Dresden had an essentially sunlit disposition

03/08/202406/06/2024 by Michael Cookson

Germany Dresden Music Festival 2024 [11] – Haydn, The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten): Lina Johnson (soprano, Hanne), Tilman Lichdi (tenor, Lukas), Matthias Winckhler (bass-baritone, Simon), La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall (conductor). Kulturpalast Dresden, 30.5.2024. (MC)

[front l-r] Lina Johnson (soprano), Jordi Savall (conductor), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), and Matthias Winckhler (baritone) © Oliver Killig

At Dresden’s Frauenkirche soprano Jeanine De Bique soared to great heights

03/08/202404/06/2024 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Dresden Music Festival 2024 [10] – ‘Mirrors’ (music by Handel, Graun, Vinci, Telemann, Broschi): Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Concerto Köln / Evgeny Sviridov (concertmaster). Frauenkirche, Dresden, 29.5.2024. (MC)

Jeanine De Bique (soprano) and Concerto Köln © Stephan Floss

Hooray for Hollywood and highly satisfying Tchaikovsky from Hope, Vogler and the DSO Berlin in Dresden

03/08/202404/06/2024 by Michael Cookson

Germany Dresden Music Festival 2024 [9] – Price, Rózsa, Williams, Rózsa and Tchaikovsky: Daniel Hope (violin), Jan Vogler (cello), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Anna Rakitina (conductor). Frauenkirche, Dresden, 28.5.2024. (MC)

Daniel Hope (violin), Jan Vogler (cello), Anna Rakitina (conductor) and DSO Berlin © Oliver Killig

Mixed results from an eclectic orchestral extravaganza as Dudamel and the LA Phil return to London

08/06/202403/06/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Williams, Ortiz, Dvořák: María Dueñas (violin), Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 2.6.2024. (CC)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts violinist María Dueñas and the LA Phil © Mark Allan/Barbican

Nicolas Hodges’s Messiaen performance, not of extremes, but one that embraced extremes

02/06/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Messiaen, Vingt régards de l’enfant-Jésus (1944): Nicolas Hodges (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 31.5.2024. (CC)

Nicolas Hodges rehearsing at the Wigmore Hall

What a privilege as well as utter joy to be present for Esther from Solomon’s Knot

03/06/202402/06/2024 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Handel, Esther HWV50a (c.1718): Soloists, Baroque ensemble, Solomon’s Knot (artistic director: Jonathan Sells). Wigmore Hall, London, 27.5.2024. (AK)

The performers involved in Handel’s *Esther* at the Wigmore Hall © Solomon’s Knot

Manfred Honeck and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra sound magnificent in Dresden

03/08/202402/06/2024 by Michael Cookson

Germany Dresden Music Festival 2024 [8] – Tarrodi, Sibelius, Dvořák: Daniel Lozakovich (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Manfred Honeck (conductor). Kulturpalast Dresden, 26.5.2024. (MC)

Manfred Honeck conducts violinist Daniel Lozakovich and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra © Oliver Killig

Wonderfully enjoyable Usher Hall performances from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra

04/06/202401/06/2024 by Gregor Tassie

United Kingdom Delius, Smetana, Beethoven, Dvořák: Mark Bebbington (pianist), Czech National Symphony Orchestra / Steven Mercurio (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 26.5.2024. (GT)

Pianist Mark Bebbington and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra at Usher Hall © Lucie Voříšková

Page 29 of 1210
<
1
...
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
...
1210
>