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Fine Schumann from the LSO and Sir John Eliot Gardiner

22/02/201911/02/2019 by Alan Sanders

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schumann and Beethoven: Piotr Anderszewski (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, 10.2.2019 (AS)

Piotr Anderszewski (c) Robert Workman
Piotr Anderszewski (c) Robert Workman

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Gabriela Montero Premieres her New Work Babel with the Scottish Ensemble in Glasgow

22/02/201911/02/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glass, Messiaen, Montero, Shostakovich and Vasks: Gabriela Montero (piano), Scottish Ensemble / Jonathan Morton (leader), New Auditorium, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 8.2.2019. (GT)

Gabriela Montero

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Jun Märkl Conducts the BBC NOW’s Spanish Evening in Cardiff

22/02/201910/02/2019 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bolero: Viva España – Ravel, de Falla, Debussy: Angela Hewitt (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jun Märkl (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 7.2.2019 (PCG)

Angela Hewitt (c) Richard Termine

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Natural Beauty and Pure Feng Shui with the BSO’s Plymouth Guildhall Concert

22/02/201910/02/2019 by Philip Buttall

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvořák: Ning Feng (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Michael Seal (conductor). Plymouth Guildhall, 7.2.2019 (PRB)

BSO with Ning Feng (inset) (c) Philip R Buttall

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Kissin’s Barbican Recital: A Supreme Technician Who Only Occasionally Touched the Soul

22/02/201910/02/2019 by Christopher Sallon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Chopin, Schumann, Debussy and Scriabin: Evgeny Kissin (piano), Barbican Hall, London 6.2.2019. (CSa)

Evgeny Kissin © Sheila Rock

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Karina Canellakis Impresses with the BBCSO in Beethoven and Larcher’s Alle Tage

22/02/201910/02/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Larcher, Beethoven: Thomas Oliemans (baritone), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 8.2.2019. (CC)

Karina Canellakis © Todd Rosenberg

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Andrew Gourlay Proves to be in Assured Control of the BBC Philharmonic in Lancaster

22/02/201909/02/2019 by Michael Cookson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn, Edward Cowie, Tchaikovsky: Julian Bliss (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic / Andrew Gourlay (conductor), Great Hall, Lancaster University, Lancashire, 7.2.2019. (MC)

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Pappano Conducts Russian Masterworks with Anita Rachvelishvili and the ROH Orchestra

19/02/201909/02/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2018-19 Orchestral Concert – Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky: Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 8.2.2019. (JPr)

Anita Rachvelishvili (c) Dario Acosta

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