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A mixed but entertaining bag from Cordelia Williams and the Maxwell Quartet at the Turner Sims

26/05/202524/05/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Maxwell Davies, R. Schubert, Pärt, Schumann, Folk Songs: Cordelia Williams (piano), Maxwell Quartet (Colin Scobie, George Smith [violins], Elliott Perks [viola], Duncan Strachan [cello]). Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, 15.5.2025. (CK)

Maxwell Quartet: [l-r] Duncan Strachan (cello), Colin Scobie (violin), Elliott Perks (viola) and George Smith (violin)

A sonic spectacular to end the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Poole season

25/05/202524/05/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Bernstein, Gershwin, Walton: Steven Osborne (piano), Andrew Hamilton (baritone), Bournemouth Symphony Chorus (Assistant Chorus director: Sam Hanson), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / David Hill (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 14.5.2025. (CK)

David Hill rehearsing the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Lighthouse © BSO

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A mixed but entertaining bag from Cordelia Williams and the Maxwell Quartet at the Turner Sims

A sonic spectacular to end the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Poole season

The Festival Orchestra is conducted by an outstanding Anna Rakitina at the Shostakovich Festival Leipzig

Paul Appleby in the premiere of Jessica Meyer’s Shadow Songs at Music Mondays in New York

Nelsons masterfully leads the BSO in superlative Leipzig performances of two Shostakovich symphonies

Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony gets a glorious performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig

Andris Nelsons directs a revelatory Eleventh Symphony in Leipzig’s Shostakovich Festival

Shostakovich Festival Leipzig opens with a remarkable performance of the neglected Fourth Symphony