From Montréal with pleasure: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme

CanadaCanada Mozart, Richard Strauss: Todd Cope (clarinet), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). 6.10.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)

Todd Cope and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (c) Antoine Saito

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A satisfying conclusion to the 2020 Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glière, Puccini, J.S. Bach, Mozart: Guy Johnston (cello), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Navarra Quartet (Magnus Johnston & Marije Johnston [violin], Sascha Bota [viola], Brian O’Kane [cello]). Chapel & Marble Hall, Hatfield House, recorded broadcast, 2.10.2020. (CS)

The Navarra Quartet and Julian Bliss, in the Marble Hall at Hatfield House

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IMS Prussia Cove at Wigmore Hall: drama, dialogues and joyful diversions

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Benjamin, Mendelssohn, Mozart: IMS Prussia Cove (Anthony Marwood & Mathilde Milwidsky [violin], Timothy Ridout & Eivind Ringstad [viola], Rebecca Gilliver & Sinéad O’Halloran [cello], Mishka Rushdie Momen [piano]), live-streamed from Wigmore Hall, London, 1.10.2020. (CS)

(from top left, clockwise) Anthony Marwood, Timothy Ridout,
Mishka Rushdie Momen and Eivind Ringstad

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‘Musical Passports’ – a streamed concert with Tessa Lark and Andrew Armstrong from Cal Performances

United StatesUnited States Bartók, Ysaÿe, Schubert, Grieg, Ravel, Tessa Lark (violin) and Andrew Armstrong (piano): Recorded at New York’s Merkin Hall for Cal Performances, 1.10.2020. (HS)

Tessa Lark in a recital presented by Cal Performances

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Incisive counterpoint from the Albion Quartet at Wigmore Hall

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Maconchy, Waley-Cohen, Beethoven: Albion String Quartet (Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Emma Parker [violins], Ann Beilby [viola], Nathaniel Boyd [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, live streamed on 29.9.2020. (CS)

Albion String Quartet (c) Steve Gullick

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Intense emotion and musicality from the Sacconi Quartet at Wigmore Hall

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dove, Haydn, Roxanna Panufnik, Shostakovich: Sacconi Quartet (Ben Hancox & Hannah Dawson [violins], Robin Ashwell [viola], Cara Berridge [cello]), streamed live from Wigmore Hall, London, 23.9.2020. (CS)

Sacconi Quartet

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Glowing Strauss from April Fredrick and the English Symphony Orchestra

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Richard Strauss: April Fredrick (soprano), English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods (conductor). Performed at Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth, and broadcast on ESO’s YouTube channel, 18.9.2020. (JQ)

April Fredrick

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