United Kingdom Mozart – ‘From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: Mozart’s Life, Love, and Letters’: Lara Melda (piano), Christian Immler (baritone), Ben Griffiths (double bass), Samuel West (narrator), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor). HallOne, Kings Place,London. 15.9.2011 (MB)
UK Concerts
All concert reviews from the UK.
Mozart: Even second-rate Mozart is first rate music.
United Kingdom Mozart: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Hall One, Kings Place, London 14.9.2011 (MB)
A John Cage Night opens the Southbank Centre’s International Chamber Music Season
United Kingdom John Cage Night: Apartment House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 13.9.2011 (Gdn)
Prom 72: The Philadelphia Orchestra visits the Proms
United Kingdom Prom 72. Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Ravel: Janine Jansen (violin); Philadelphia Orchestra; Charles Dutoit (conductor). Royal Albert Hall 08/09/2011 (KC)
New 9/11 choral work confronts tensions between Christianity and Islam
United Kingdom Richard Blackford, Copland, Barber: Paul Nilon (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone), Simon Callow (narrator), Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Gavin Carr (conductor), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 11.9.2011. (RJ)
Prom 74: The Last Night of the Proms 2011, a rather forgettable occasion
United Kingdom Prom 74 – Last Night Of The Proms 2011: music by Maxwell Davies, Bartók, Wagner, Liszt, Chopin, Britten, Rodgers, Elgar, Arne, and Parry plus arrangements of traditional items: Lang Lang (piano), Susan Bullock (soprano), Jenny Agutter (narrator), The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Household Division, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner. Royal Albert Hall,London, 10.9.11. (JPr)
Christopher Maltman and Graham Johnson open the 2011/12 Wigmore Hall season, exploring settings of Schiller
United Kingdom Friedrich Schiller – Ein Leben in Liedern: Songs by Schubert, Schumann, and Liszt: Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 10.9.2011 (MB)
Heady cosmopolitan mix of contemporary music at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
United Kingdom Qigang Chen, Metcalf, Bowden, Reich: Gerard McChrystal (soprano saxophone), Oliver Coates (cello), Sound intermedia (sound diffusion), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Jean-Michaël Lavoie (conductor), BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 9.9.2011 (Gpu)