Concert Reviews

The complete list of posted concert reviews

Majestic Brahms Symphony No.4 from Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony

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United StatesUnited States Shostakovich, Brahms: Sayaka Shoji (violin), San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 4.10.2024. (HS)

Violinist Sayaka Shoji plays Shostakovich’s Concerto No.1 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting © Stefan Cohen

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From wit to an alien world to radiant transcendence: symphonic showcase from Harding’s Clevelanders

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United StatesUnited States Haydn, Walker, R. Schumann: Cleveland Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 3.10.2024. (MSJ)

Daniel Harding conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in Schumann’s Symphony No.2 © Yevhen Gulenko/CO

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A diverse and rewarding bill of fare at the ongoing Corvedale Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Corvedale Festival 2024 [2] – Various: Edge Chamber Choir (director: Ros Crouch), Joely Koos (cello), Wind players from Chetham’s School of Music (principal: Tom Redmond), Anna Kondrashina (flute). Corvedale Churches, 22 to 26.9.2024. (CK)

Edge Chamber Choir

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Superlative music-making at the Corvedale Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Corvedale Festival 2024 [1] – Various: Jarualda Quartet: (Alex Postlethwaite, David Joyce [violins], Jane Park [viola], Ruth Henley [cello]), Roelof Temmingh (piano); Magdalenna Krstevska (clarinet), Hamish Brown (piano), Cristian de Sá (violin), John Lenehan (piano). St. Michael’s Church, Munslow & St. Peter’s Church, Diddlebury, 20 & 21.9.2024. (CK)

Jarualda Quartet are the Corvedale Festival’s Artists-in-Residence

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