Chris Kettle – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

Gently revelatory Coleridge-Taylor symphony from Chineke! at the Royal Festival Hall

06/02/202405/02/2024 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Watts, Saint-Saëns, Coleridge-Taylor: William Campbell (organ), Chineke! Orchestra / Leslie Suganandarajah (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 2.2.2024. (CK)

William Campbell plays Saint-Saëns’s *Organ Symphony* with the Chineke! Orchestra © Chuko Cribb

Jac van Steen and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra give a thrilling account of Smetana’s Má vlast

01/02/2024 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Smetana: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Jac van Steen (conductor). Portsmouth Guildhall, 25.1.2024. (CK)

Jac van Steen conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Outstanding chamber music-making returns to Romsey

24/02/202429/01/2024 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Dutilleux, Weiner, Schumann, Haydn, Webern, Beethoven: RCMF Quartet (Luke Hsu and Laura Rickard [violin], Marthe Husum [viola] and Rainer Crosett [cello]). URC Church, Romsey, 19.1.2024 and 21.1.2024. (CK)

Earth-shaking Alpine Symphony from Sir Mark Elder and the National Youth Orchestra at the Barbican

06/01/2024 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Howard, Smetana, R. Strauss: National Youth Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Barbican Hall, London 4.1.2024. (CK)

Sir Mark Elder conducts the National Youth Orchestra at the Barbican Hall © Benjamin Ealovega

Exuberant full house for Chineke! greets Joan Armatrading’s symphonic debut

27/11/2023 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Armatrading, Tchaikovsky: Chineke! Orchestra / Andrew Grams, Adam Gibbs (conductors). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. 24.11.2023. (CK)

Members of Chineke!, Joan Armatrading (centre) and Andrew Grams (right) © Chuko Cribb

Sudbury Choral Society’s gutsy Mozart Requiem with outstanding soloists

25/11/202324/11/2023 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Handel, Mozart: Clara Orif (soprano), Abbie Ward (mezzo-soprano), Samuel Kibble (tenor), Thomas Butler (bass), Sudbury Choral Society / John Chillingworth (conductor). St Gregory’s Church, Sudbury, 19.11.2023. (CK)

Berlioz’s epic The Trojans triumphs at the BBC Proms

06/09/2023 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Prom 64 – Berlioz: Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique / Dinis Sousa (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 3.9.2023. (CK)

Berlioz’s *The Trojans* at the BBC Proms © BBC/Andy Paradise

Sir Simon Rattle makes a persuasive case for Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri at the BBC Proms

24/08/2023 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Prom 49 – R. Schumann, Das Paradies und die Peri: Soloists, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London 22.8.2023. (CK)

Schumann’s *Das Paradies und die Peri* at the BBC Proms © BBC/Mark Allan

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