United Kingdom Various: Will Duerden (double bass), Svitlana Kosenko (piano). Wigmore Hall, 4.3.2025. (MBr)
The glory of the Double Bass: Will Duerden at Wigmore Hall
UK Concerts
All concert reviews from the UK.
Anything but a run-of-the-mill Barbican Hall Chopin recital from Louie Lortie
United Kingdom Chopin: Louis Lortie (piano). Barbican Hall, London, 27.2.2025. (MB)
A concert of unique programming and insight from Baeva, LPO and Omer Meir Wellber
United Kingdom Haydn, Mahler/Schnittke, Tchaikovsky: Alena Baeva (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor/harpsichord/piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 1.3.2025. (CC)
A Barbican Hall evening of thrilling contrasts, expertly navigated by Elim Chan and the BBC SO
United Kingdom Ogonek, Britten, Shostakovich: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Elim Chan (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 28.2.2025. (KMcD)
Sir Stephen Hough’s sparkling Piano Concerto sits comfortably between the BSO’s Brahms and Elgar
United Kingdom Brahms, Hough, Elgar: Sir Stephen Hough (piano), Walter van Dyk (speaker), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 27.2.2025. (CK)
Marios Papadopoulos’s musical dialogue with his Oxford Philharmonic at the Barbican
United Kingdom Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.2.2025. (AK)
Richard Strauss and Grieg with Osborne, Gardner and the LPO
United Kingdom León, Grieg, Richard Strauss: Steven Osborne (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 21.2.2025. (MBr)
Philharmonia and Paavo Järvi: Spiky Stravinsky and occasionally turgid Tüür fail to lift the spirits
United Kingdom Stravinsky, Tüür: Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Philharmonia / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 27.2.2025. (JR)
