United Kingdom Music in Auschwitz: Commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, various soloists, Wigmore Hall, London, 23.1.2025 (MBr)
Powerful and exceptional Wigmore Hall concert commemorating the Holocaust
UK Concerts
All concert reviews from the UK.
There for the Tubin, but the sheer brilliance throughout by the young RCM players left me hungry for more
United Kingdom Respighi, Tubin, Falla, Ravel: Will Dearden (double bass), RCM Symphony Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal College of Music, London, 23.1.2025. (CC)
Two cleverly connected programmes across the centuries and a tour-de-force by the Juilliard String Quartet
United Kingdom Schubert, Beethoven and Widmann: Juilliard String Quartet – Areta Zhulla (violin), Ronald Copes (violin), Molly Carr (viola) Astrid Schween (cello). Wigmore Hall, London. 19.1.2025 and 20.1.2025 (CSa)
A beguiling Viennese programme from Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony
United Kingdom Johann Strauss II, Berg, Brahms: Alena Baeva (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 22.1.2025. (CK)
Bold programming and brilliant playing at the Romsey Chamber Music WinterFest
United Kingdom Romsey Chamber Music Festival – WinterFest 2025: Laura Rickard (violin), Rainer Crosett (cello), Tomoki Park (piano). United Reformed Church, Romsey, 17-19.1.2025. (CK)
Germany’s National Orchestra bring colour and musical virtuosity to a wintry Edinburgh
United Kingdom Britten, Gershwin, Holst: Wayne Marshall (soloist, conductor), German National Orchestra, German-British Choir Academy. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 19.1.2025. (GT)
Noah Zhou’s tremendous Wigmore Hall recital… even with the minor quibble
United Kingdom Rachmaninoff, Clementi, Liszt: Noah Zhou (piano). Wigmore Hall, 15.1.2025. (MBr)
NOVO Quartet at the Wigmore Hall show they are going from strength to strength
United Kingdom Beethoven: NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 19.1.2025. (CC)
