Concert Reviews – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

Spring Snow: A Kabuki Winterreise at Wigmore Hall was an unforgettable evening

14/10/202612/10/2026 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Spring Snow: A Kabuki Winterreise: Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Suleiman Suleiman (dancer), Jong Sun Woo (piano), Hibiki Ichikawa (shamisen/shinobue), Sonoko Kamimura-Ostern (choreography), Lifeng Liao (costume and lighting designer), Misa Koide, Sophie Daneman (movement directors). Wigmore Hall, 11.10.2026. (CC)

*Spring Snow: A Kabuki Winterreise* © Hugo Glendinning

Refined, virtuosic accounts of the Brandenburg Concertos from Bach Collegium Japan

14/10/202612/10/2026 by Robert Beattie

Ireland Bach: Bach Collegium Japan / Masato Suzuki (conductor and harpsichord). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 10.10.2026. (RB)

Masato Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan © K Miura

Önaç’s new music is certainly impressively constructed; the ideas lofty and a piece to hear live

13/10/202612/10/2026 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Önaç Atlantic Requiem (2026, world premiere): Brittany Renne (soprano), J’Nai Bridges (mezzo-soprano), Orson Van Gay II (tenor), BBC Singers, London Symphony Orchestra / Malcolm J. Merriweather (conductor). Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, 11.10.2026. (CC)

Spring Snow: A Kabuki Winterreise at Wigmore Hall was an unforgettable evening

Refined, virtuosic accounts of the Brandenburg Concertos from Bach Collegium Japan

Önaç’s new music is certainly impressively constructed; the ideas lofty and a piece to hear live

Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic bring clarity and intensity to Elgar and Tchaikovsky

Admirable Haydn and Mozart from the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland and Peter Whelan

Benedetti’s Prokofiev and Canellakis’s Rachmaninoff rise to the top in San Francisco

Sunwook Kim’s mesmerises as pianist and director of Beethoven’s Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos in Glasgow

Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker bathe Carnegie Hall in Italian color