United Kingdom Manchester Collective’s Places We Know: Manchester Collective / Rakhi Singh (violin/director). Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, 4.12.2022. (CC)
Unutterable emotional honesty from the Manchester Collective’s Places We Know
Colin Clarke
Winning Vaughan Williams and disjointed Bruckner from Ticciati and the LPO
United Kingdom Vaughan Williams, Bruckner: Sir Simon Keenlyside (baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 30.11.2022 (CC)
John Nelson offers a message of hope with The English Concert’s Messiah at Coventry Cathedral
United Kingdom Handel, Messiah, HWV 56 (1741): Lucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Choir of The English Concert, The English Concert / John Nelson (conductor). Coventry Cathedral, 24.11.2022. Reviewed from recording streamed on medici.tv.
Alice Sara Ott’s Ravel Piano Concerto was the truly special performance of LSO’s concert
United Kingdom Drewett, Ravel, Shostakovich: Alice Sara Ott (piano); London Symphony Orchestra / Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.11.2022. (CC)
Andsnes’s commanding performance of Beethoven’s Op.110 is a highlight of a varied Wigmore Hall recital
United Kingdom Various: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.11.2022. (CC)
The Royal Opera at its best in Richard Jones’s new Alcina at Covent Garden
United Kingdom Handel (ed. Flesch) Alcina: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Christian Curnyn (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 14.11.2022 (CC)
The Royal Opera at its very best: a new generation of singers excel in The Rape of Lucretia
United Kingdom Britten, The Rape of Lucretia: Soloists, Aurora Orchestra / Corinna Niemeyer (conductor). Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden, 13.11.2022. (CC)
Radvanovsky is the Medea of the 2020s in David McVicar’s visceral Met production
United States Met: Live in HD – Cherubini’s Medea: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Gary Halvorson) to the Barbican Cinema, London, 22.10.2022. (CC)
