Germany Dresden Music Festival 2024 [1] – Bruckner: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Kulturpalast, Dresden, 10.5.2024. (CC)
In Dresden: Klaus Mäkelä ultimately failed to satisfy with Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony
Colin Clarke
Purest Monteverdian joy from I Fagiolini at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Monteverdi: I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth (director / organ). Wigmore Hall, London, 29.4.2024. (CC)
The best things come to those who wait: Jurowski and the LPO’s Götterdämmerung
United Kingdom Wagner, Götterdämmerung (semi-staged): Soloists, London Philharmonic Choir, London Voices, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 27.4.2024 (CC)
Kopatchinskaja’s Everyday Non-sense: might either be unforgettable or you could just as easily hate it
United Kingdom Everyday Non-sense – works by Shiomi, Schmit, Higgins, Mozart, Kurtág, Cage, PatKop, Françaix and Ligeti: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin / voice / vacuum cleaner), members of Aurora Orchestra. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, 24.4.2024. (CC)
Phenomenal Dean, Bach and Brahms from Benjamin Grosvenor at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Brett Dean, The Homage Etudes (2009-20) – Dean, Bach, Brahms: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.4.2024. (CC)
A perfect lunchtime Wigmore Hall concert from Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff
United Kingdom French Song: Véronique Gens (soprano), Susan Manoff (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 15.4.2024. (CC)
Britten Sinfonia’s typically adventurous programme, mixing a world premiere with music of today
United Kingdom Weir, Britten, Watkins, Mozart: Nicky Spence (tenor), Ben Goldscheider (horn), Britten Sinfonia / Max Baillie (violin/director, Britten, Mozart), Michael Papadopoulos (conductor, Weir, Watkins). Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 9.4.2024. (CC)
Akhmetshina dominates, but in Michieletto’s new Carmen his ‘clever’ aspects may jar on repetition
United Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 5.4.2024. (CC)
