United Kingdom Avison, Pergolesi, Telemann, Handel, Purcell, Worgan, Arne, Storace, Vivaldi: Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Ars Musicae of Mallorca (Bernat Cabot, leader), Timothy Roberts (harpsichord), Matthew Dunn (organ), St. Botolph’s without Aldgate, London, 10.7.15 (BW)
UK Concerts
All concert reviews from the UK.
French Connections in Gloucestershire: Satie, Messiaen, Joan of Arc
United Kingdom Meurig Bowen, Erik Satie – Memoirs of a Pear Shaped Life; David Bamber (actor), Anne Lovett (piano), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, 2.7.2015 (RJ)
Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (selection) : Cordelia Williams (piano), Michael Symmons Roberts (reciter), Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury , 8.7.2015. (RJ)
Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc: The Orlando Consort [Matthew Venner, Mark Dobell, Angus Smith, Donald Greig, Robert MacDonald], Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, 8.7.2015. (RJ)
Keeping Up with a New Generation of Musicians in Cheltenham
Schubert, Mulsant, Dvořák: Armida Quartet [Martin Funda and Johanna Staemmler (violins), Teresea Schwamm (viola), Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello)], Lise Berthaud (viola), Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, 8.7.2014.(RJ)
The Sorrows of War Recalled by Kokoro and Canticum
United Kingdom Wiegold, Davies, Rarity, Poulenc: Canticum Chamber Choir, Kokoro [Luke Russell (flute), Elisabeth Drew (clarient) Kate Turnbull (violin), Lionel Handy (cello), Nicki Dixon (double bass), Sacha Johnson (percussion)] / Mark Forkgen (conductor), Cheltenham Music Festival, Cheltenham College Chapel, Cheltenham, 5.7.2015.
A Momentous Performance of Mahler’s Monumental Third Symphony
United Kingdom Mahler: Sarah Connolly, Ladies of Cheltenham Bach Choir, Cheltenham Youth Choir, Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra / Stephen Threlfall (conductor, Cheltenham Music Festival, Town Hall, Cheltenham, 4.7.2015. (RJ)
Magnificent Brahms from Zimerman and Rattle
United Kingdom Brahms, Dvořák: Krystian Zimerman (piano); London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle. Barbican Hall, London 2.7.2015 (CC)
Matthias Goerne and Menahem Pressler: Mastery in Schumann
United Kingdom Schumann: Matthias Goerne (baritone), Menahem Pressler (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 2.7.2015 (MB)
The Heath Quartet Combine Bach and the Second Viennese School
United Kingdom Bach, Musto, Webern, and Schoenberg: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Heath Quartet [Oliver Heath, Cerys Jones (violins), Gary Pomeroy (viola), Christopher Murray (cello)]. Wigmore Hall, London, 1.7.2015 (MB)