United Kingdom Schubert, Janáček, Schumann – Leon McCawley (piano): Live-streamed from Wigmore Hall, London, on the Wigmore Hall YouTube channel, 10.10.2020. (RB)
Consistently high standard of playing throughout Leon McCawley’s Wigmore Hall recital
Robert Beattie
Pianist Leon McCawley in conversation with Robert Beattie
Leon McCawley is one of the UK’s leading concert pianists. He has forged a highly successful career since winning first prize in the 1993 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition the same year. Since then, his concert performances and extensive discography have established him as a … Read more
At short notice, Paavo Järvi leads the Philharmonia in a musically varied, finely played, Prom
United Kingdom BBC Proms Live – Ravel, Shostakovich, Mozart: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Jason Evans (trumpet), Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Broadcast Live on BBC iPlayer and BBC Radio 3 from the Royal Albert Hall, 9.9.2020. (RB)
Handel meets House of Cards? A compelling Agrippina from the Met
United States Handel, Agrippina: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Harry Bicket (conductor). Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York to Dundonald Omniplex Cinema, Belfast, 29.2.2020. (RB)
An enjoyable performance of Hansel and Gretel in Dublin
Ireland Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Chorus and Ensemble of Irish National Opera / Richard Peirson (conductor), Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 15.2.2020. (RB)
Ben McAteer (Father) (c) Patrick Redmond
Northern Ireland Opera brings Kiss Me, Kate vibrantly to life
United Kingdom Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate: Cast, Chorus and Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera / Conor Mitchell (conductor). Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 5.2.2020. (RB)
CONDUCTOR TOM HAMMOND IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT BEATTIE
Tom Hammond talks to Robert Beattie
Tom Hammond is a London-based conductor, recording producer, and Festival Director. As well as being Music Director/Principal Conductor of the Finchley, Hertford and St Albans Symphony Orchestras, Tom also directs youth orchestras in Hatfield and Watford, and is a Guest Conductor for the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Palestine, and in this country with the Orchestra of the Swan, which is based in Stratford-upon-Avon. Tom is a founding Artistic Director of the Hertfordshire Festival of Music, an annual summer celebration of classical music held in various venues in Hertfordshire which celebrates its fifth consecutive year in 2020.
A visually sumptuous and imaginative Akhnaten production from the Met
United States Philip Glass, Akhnaten: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Karen Kamensek (Conductor), Broadcast live to the Dundonald Omniplex Cinema, Belfast from the Metropolitan Opera, New York 23.11.2019. (RB)
in Akhnaten (c) Karen Almond/Met Opera