UK Concerts

All concert reviews from the UK.

Superlative music-making at the Corvedale Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Corvedale Festival 2024 [1] – Various: Jarualda Quartet: (Alex Postlethwaite, David Joyce [violins], Jane Park [viola], Ruth Henley [cello]), Roelof Temmingh (piano); Magdalenna Krstevska (clarinet), Hamish Brown (piano), Cristian de Sá (violin), John Lenehan (piano). St. Michael’s Church, Munslow & St. Peter’s Church, Diddlebury, 20 & 21.9.2024. (CK)

Jarualda Quartet are the Corvedale Festival’s Artists-in-Residence

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Where Art Meets Science: a successful Churchill College conjoining of music and lecture

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Where Art Meets Science – Marin, Campbell, Mendelssohn-Hensel, plus Professor Dame Athene Donald (speaker): Marsyas Trio, Rosalyn Hart, Emily Chung (violins), Rachel Stott (viola), Ewan Campbell (double bass). Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge, 28.9.2024. (CC)

Applause for Dr Susan Lim

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Emelyanychev and Isserlis launch the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 51st season with Dvořák masterworks

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dvořák: Steven Isserlis (cello), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor). City Halls, Glasgow, 27.9.2024. (GT)

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts cellist Steven Isserlis and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra © Christopher Bowen

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Two contrasting Rachmaninoff works from the LPO under Edward Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rachmaninoff: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor), Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone), London Philharmonic Choir (artistic director: Neville Creed), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 28.9.2024. (JR)

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner © Mark Allan

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The LPO, DiDonato and Gardner shine in mythic vengeance, queenly suicide and social heroism

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom ‘Moments Remembered’ – Samuel Barber, Berlioz and Beethoven: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London. 25.9.2024. (CSa)

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner © Mark Allan

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