UK Concerts – Page 19 – Seen and Heard International

Musical excellence mingles with lack of clarity at Good Friday’s Wigmore Hall Haydn concert

06/04/202605/04/2026 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Haydn: Aylen Pritchin and Tim Crawford (violins), Iris Juda (viola), David Waterman (cello), Ruth Padel (poet), Wigmore Hall, London, 3.4.2026. (AK)

Final curtain call with all involved in the performance of Haydn’s *Seven Last Words*

Edward Gardner’s exhibition is a curated curate’s egg of baptised Bacons and mundane Mussorgskys

07/04/202605/04/2026 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United Kingdom Bartók, Turnage, Mussorgsky: Alina Ibragimova (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 1.4.2026. (AV-E)

Argerich and Lim’s Good Friday magic one day early at the RFH

03/04/2026 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninov: Martha Argerich, Dong Hyek Lim (piano duo/duet). Royal Festival Hall, London, 2.4.2026. (CC)

Pianists Dong Hyek Lim and Martha Argerich (and page turner) © Pete Woodhead

A pleasant LSO St Luke’s concert, but one that skated on the Mozartian surface

03/04/202603/04/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Mozart: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin), Eivind Ringstad (viola), Daniel Jemison (bassoon), Timothy Jones (horn), LSO Chamber Orchestra / Jaime Martín (conductor). LSO St Luke’s, London, 29.3.2026. (MB)

Bassoonist Daniel Jemison, conductor Jaime Martin and the LSO Chamber Orchestra © LSO/Mark Allan

Less is more: Lewis and Ensemble bring clarity, transparency and grandeur to reduced Beethoven

02/04/202602/04/2026 by Christopher Sallon

United Kingdom Beethoven: Paul Lewis (piano), Tim Gibbs (double bass), Vertavo String Quartet (Øyvor Volle [violin], Annabelle Meare [violin], Berit Cardas [viola], Bjørg Lewis [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 29.3.2026. (CSa)

Paul Lewis at a previous concert © Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

Dazzlingly delivered: Nil Venditti and Mark Bebbington resurrect Rubbra’s marooned masterpiece

02/04/202601/04/2026 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United Kingdom Rossini, Rubbra, Rachmaninov: Mark Bebbington (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Nil Venditti (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London. 31.3.2026. (AV-E)

Nil Venditti conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra © Jasmine Waterfield/RPO

A pair of nines: Tan Dun high stakes and Beethoven safe bet gambled at the Royal Festival Hall

01/04/202630/03/2026 by Alexander Verney-Elliott

United Kingdom Tan Dun, Beethoven: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Hongni Wu (mezzo-soprano), John Findon (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), London Philharmonic Choir, London Chinese Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Tan Dun (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 28.3.2026. (AV-E)

Tan Dun conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra © Julian Guidera/LPO

Alim Beisembayev bowls over a Sunday morning audience with Liszt’s Sonata in B minor

30/03/2026 by Lucy Jeffery

United Kingdom Schubert, Chopin, Liszt: Alim Beisembayev (piano). Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 29.3.2026. (LJ)

Alim Beisembayev at Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

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