SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, BROADCASTS, AND THEATRE
United Kingdom Beethoven: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavolvsky, Sergei Bressler [violins], Ori Kam [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 29.1.2022. (MB)
United Kingdom Janáček, Schumann, and Brahms: Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Isabelle Vogt (narrator), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Lars Vogt (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 26.1.2022 (MB)
United Kingdom BBC SO Total Immersion – Music for the End of Time: Soloists, Simon Wallfisch (baritone), Guildhall School Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Alpesh Chauhan, Nicholas Chalmers, Josep Pons (conductors). Barbican Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 23.1.2022. (MB)
United Kingdom Boulanger, Wagner, Scriabin: London Philharmonic Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.1.2022. (MB)
United Kingdom Debussy, Liszt, Bartók, and Ravel: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Dmitry Shishkin (pianos). Wigmore Hall, London, 13.1.2022. (MB)
United Kingdom Anderson, Mahler, Rott, Webern, and Dvořák: Siobhan Stagg (soprano), London Symphony Chorus (chorus director: Simon Halsey), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 9.1.2022. (MB)
Reflecting on the past year – and perhaps with their hopes for the future – are … MARK BERRY: It has, for reasons all too obvious, been another strange musical year. Whereas in 2020 we had just over two months of ‘normality’, an apparently auspicious beginning to Beethoven Year, followed by the Great Deafness, intermittently … Read more
United Kingdom Handel, Messiah: Harriet Eyley (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Stuart Jackson (tenor), James Newby (baritone), Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge (director, organ: Richard Pinel), Britten Sinfonia / David Watkin (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.12.2021. (MB)
