United Kingdom ‘Māori Music Evening’: Georgia Steel (viola), Andrew Nesler (piano), Blake Huang (piano), Ellis Carrington (voice). St Mary’s Minster, Swansea, Wales. 21.10.2026. (LJ)
A Māori Music Evening in Swansea celebrates kaitiakitanga
Concert Reviews
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Joe Hisaishi scores big in San Francisco with his new Concerto for Orchestra
United States Various: San Francisco Symphony / Joe Hisaishi (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 22.10.2026. (HS)
Torrential Tchaikovsky, seismic Shostakovich: Seong-Jin Cho, Rouvali and the Philharmonia at the RFH
United Kingdom Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich: Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London. 22.10.2026. (AV-E)
Exhilarating English music and elemental Sibelius from Mark Wigglesworth and the BSO in Poole
United Kingdom Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Adès, Sibelius: Anthony Marwood (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 21.10.2026. (CK)
The Fibonacci Quartet’s welcome return to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
United Kingdom Mozart and Tchaikovsky: Fibonacci Quartet (Luna De Mol, Kryštof Kohout [violins], Elliot Kempson [viola], Findlay Spence [cello]). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 22.10.2026. (LJ)
A fine and thoughtful rectal of Lieder from Paula Sides and Sergey Rybin
United Kingdom Berg, Ullmann, Korngold, and R. Strauss: Paula Sides (soprano), Sergey Rybin (piano). VOCES8 Centre, St Anne and St Agnes Church, London, 21.10.2026. (MB)
Breathtaking Brahms, malignant Manfred: Fischer, Gardner and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall
United Kingdom Brahms, Tchaikovsky: Julia Fischer (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.10.2026. (AV-E)
A whole Wigmore Hall evening of C. P. E. Bach from Mahan Esfahani and Aapo Häkkinen
United Kingdom C. P. E. Bach: Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Aapo Häkkinen (fortepiano/harpsichord/director). Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Wigmore Hall, 19.10.2026. (CC)
