Colin Clarke – Page 43 – Seen and Heard International

Shades of the present haunt Russia’s past as parodied by Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel

29/03/202507/03/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, The Golden Cockerel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Gerry Cornelius (conductor). Hackney Empire. London, 5.3.2022. (CC)

Alys Mererid Roberts (Cockerel), Robert Lewis (Astrologer) and Grant Doyle (King Dodon) © Richard Hubert Smith

Phantasmagoria as Man is pitted against Nature in ENO’s new The Cunning Little Vixen

10/05/202224/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen (Přiíhody lišky Bystroušky): Soloists, Children’s Chorus, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). London Coliseum, 22.2.2022. (CC)

English National Opera’s *The Cunning Little Vixen* © Clive Barda

Stefano Montanari and his remarkable cast elevate this Rigoletto revival to a superlative level

10/05/202223/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Verdi Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Stefano Montanari (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 21.2.2022. (CC)

Luca Salsi (Rigoletto) and Francesco Demuro (Duke of Mantua) © Helen Murray

A musical Ukraine tribute and other rich rewards from Gidon Kremer and friends

10/05/202222/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Schumann, Igor Laboda, Victoria Polevá, Rachmaninov: Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello), Georgijs Osokins (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.2.2022. (CC)

Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello) and Georgijs Osokins (piano) (c) Ben Reason

Superb OAE concert in all respects; but Faust’s Schumann Violin Concerto was simply revelatory

10/05/202216/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Schumann – Part of The Wilderness Pleases season: Isabelle Faust (violin), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.2.2022 (CC)

The whole London Mozart Players and Sheku Kanneh-Mason Fairfield Halls experience was positively magical

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glinka, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky/Ravel – A Fresh Take on Shostakovich: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), James Mayhew (artist), London Mozart Players / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 13.2.2022. (CC)

Jonathan Bloxham conducts the London Mozart Players in *Pictures at an Exhibition*

Memorable – and not so memorable – music is a feature of Bychkov’s BBC SO Barbican concert

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Dessner, R. Strauss, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 11.2.2022. (CC)

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC SO (c) Mark Allan

Highly memorable LPO concert with the Brett Dean Viola Concerto lingering in the memory

10/05/202211/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Nielsen, Brett Dean, Mahler: Lawrence Power (viola), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Hannu Lintu (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 9.2.2022. (CC)

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