United Kingdom Leith, Werner, Miller, Mustonen – Hidden Mechanisms: Manchester Collective. Purcell Room, London, 9.2.2025. (CC)
Manchester Collective’s Hidden Mechanisms impresses at the Purcell Room
Colin Clarke
Alice Sara Ott’s fascinating Southbank programme of Field Nocturnes and Beethoven sonatas
United Kingdom Field, Beethoven: Alice Sara Ott (piano). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 7.2.2025. (CC)
New music demanding much from the listeners is given full respect by Maxime Pascal and the LSO
United Kingdom LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez: London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 26.1.2025. (CC)
There for the Tubin, but the sheer brilliance throughout by the young RCM players left me hungry for more
United Kingdom Respighi, Tubin, Falla, Ravel: Will Dearden (double bass), RCM Symphony Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal College of Music, London, 23.1.2025. (CC)
NOVO Quartet at the Wigmore Hall show they are going from strength to strength
United Kingdom Beethoven: NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 19.1.2025. (CC)
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Haydn, Kurtág, and Adams in a welcome return to the LPO
United Kingdom On the Transmigration of Souls – Haydn, Kurtág, Adams: Anna Devin (soprano), Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano), Rupert Charlesworth (tenor), Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass), Tiffin Youth Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, Jonathan Green (sound designer), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 18.1.2025. (CC)
Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony’s Barbican Hall musical journey from Venezuela to Russia
United Kingdom Odisea – Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky: Jorge Glem (Venezuelan cuatro), Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.2.2025. (CC)
Fascinating, energising evening from Aziz Shokhakimov and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
France Khachaturian, Prokofiev: Nemanja Radulović (violin), Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg / Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor). Philharmonie de Paris, France, 26.11.2024. (CC)
