United Kingdom City of Derry International Choir Festival: Tenebrae / Nigel Short (conductor). Performance from St Stephen Walbrook, London, reviewed from a live stream on 24.10.2020. (CC)
Tenebrae’s small gem of a recital was balm to the soul
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Musical optimism from the LPO and Sir Mark Elder at the Royal Festival Hall
United Kingdom Rapture and Revelry – Clyne, R. Strauss, Beethoven: Pieter Schoeman (violin), Tania Mazzetti (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London (live stream), 21.10.2020. (CS)
Thought-provoking and inspirational music-making from The Kanneh-Mason Family in Concert at the Barbican
United Kingdom The Kanneh-Mason Family in Concert: Live-streamed (directed by Rhodri Huw) from Barbican Hall, London, 22.10.2020. (JPr)
A Hardy Songbook: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn at Oxford Lieder
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [5] – A Thomas Hardy Songbook: Rowan Pierce (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford (live stream), 16.10.2020. (CS)
On his 80th birthday, Stephen Kovacevich thoroughly deserved the audience’s cheers at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Bach, Schubert: Stephen Kovacevich (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 17.10.2020 performance reviewed on Wigmore Hall’s YouTube. (CC)
Christoph Prégardien and Emerging Artists farewell recital celebrates success of Oxford Lieder Festival 2020
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [4] – Beethoven, Schubert: Christoph Prégardien (tenor) and Michael Gees (piano); Harriet Burns (soprano) and Ian Tindale (piano). 17.10.2020 performance from Holywell Music Room, Oxford, reviewed as a live stream. (CP)
Yulia Chaplina and Jack Liebeck’s Tolstoy and Beethoven themed evening was a triumph at Kings Place
United Kingdom Tolstoy and Beethoven – An Uneasy Relationship: Yulia Chaplina (piano), Jack Liebeck (violin), Julia Somerville OBE (narrator). Kings Place, London, 15.10.2020. (CC)
Consistently high standard of playing throughout Leon McCawley’s Wigmore Hall recital
United Kingdom Schubert, Janáček, Schumann – Leon McCawley (piano): Live-streamed from Wigmore Hall, London, on the Wigmore Hall YouTube channel, 10.10.2020. (RB)
