UK Concerts – Page 165 – Seen and Heard International

Audience and performers enjoy the SCO Chamber Ensemble on an Edinburgh Sunday afternoon

10/05/202220/02/2022 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert: SCO Chamber Ensemble (Maxim Emelyanychev [fortepiano], Stephanie Gonley [violin], Fiona Winning [viola], Philip Higham [cello], Nikita Naumov [double bass], Maximiliano Martín [clarinet]). Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 20.2.2022. (SRT)

Maxim Emelyanychev in the Queen’s Hall (c) Ryan Buchanan

Playfulness and panache from Barbara Hannigan and the LSO

10/05/202219/02/2022 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Copland, Haydn, Offenbach, Weill: Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor), Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), London Symphony Orchestra. Barbican Hall, London, 17.2.2022. (CS)

Barbara Hannigan conducts the LSO (c) Mark Allan

Splendid playing from an animated and animating Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer

10/05/202219/02/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Stravinsky: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 17.2.2022. (MB)

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra (c) Parri Thomas

Jerusalem Quartet continue their satisfying and thoughtful exploration of Beethoven quartets

10/05/202218/02/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Beethoven: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavolvsky, Sergei Bressler [violins], Jonathan Brown [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 16.2.2022. (MB)

Superb OAE concert in all respects; but Faust’s Schumann Violin Concerto was simply revelatory

10/05/202216/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Schumann – Part of The Wilderness Pleases season: Isabelle Faust (violin), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.2.2022 (CC)

Così fan tutte is another wonderful ensemble achievement for Saffron Opera Group

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte (concert performance): Chorus (chorus master: James Davey) and Orchestra of Saffron Opera Group / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 13.2.2022. (JPr)

Jessica Cale (Fiordiligi), Liam Bonthrone (Ferrando), Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (Dorabella) and Marcus Farnsworth (Guglielmo) (c) Roger King

The whole London Mozart Players and Sheku Kanneh-Mason Fairfield Halls experience was positively magical

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glinka, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky/Ravel – A Fresh Take on Shostakovich: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), James Mayhew (artist), London Mozart Players / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 13.2.2022. (CC)

Jonathan Bloxham conducts the London Mozart Players in *Pictures at an Exhibition*

Memorable – and not so memorable – music is a feature of Bychkov’s BBC SO Barbican concert

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Dessner, R. Strauss, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 11.2.2022. (CC)

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO (c) Mark Allan

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