United Kingdom City of Derry International Choir Festival: Tenebrae / Nigel Short (conductor). Performance from St Stephen Walbrook, London, reviewed from a live stream on 24.10.2020. (CC)
Tenebrae’s small gem of a recital was balm to the soul
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Musical optimism from the LPO and Sir Mark Elder at the Royal Festival Hall
United Kingdom Rapture and Revelry – Clyne, R. Strauss, Beethoven: Pieter Schoeman (violin), Tania Mazzetti (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London (live stream), 21.10.2020. (CS)
Thought-provoking and inspirational music-making from The Kanneh-Mason Family in Concert at the Barbican
United Kingdom The Kanneh-Mason Family in Concert: Live-streamed (directed by Rhodri Huw) from Barbican Hall, London, 22.10.2020. (JPr)
The Royal Opera’s 4/4 is a real cabinet of musical curiosities
United Kingdom The Royal Opera’s 4/4: Performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 17.10.2020 and reviewed as a live stream (directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon). (JPr)
On his 80th birthday, Stephen Kovacevich thoroughly deserved the audience’s cheers at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Bach, Schubert: Stephen Kovacevich (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 17.10.2020 performance reviewed on Wigmore Hall’s YouTube. (CC)
New English Ballet Theatre’s emotional Remembrance acts as a reminder of different times
United Kingdom New English Ballet Theatre’s Remembrance: filmed at Peacock Theatre, London, and premiered on YouTube on 15.10.2020. (JO’D)
(c) Deborah Jaffe
Yulia Chaplina and Jack Liebeck’s Tolstoy and Beethoven themed evening was a triumph at Kings Place
United Kingdom Tolstoy and Beethoven – An Uneasy Relationship: Yulia Chaplina (piano), Jack Liebeck (violin), Julia Somerville OBE (narrator). Kings Place, London, 15.10.2020. (CC)
Consistently high standard of playing throughout Leon McCawley’s Wigmore Hall recital
United Kingdom Schubert, Janáček, Schumann – Leon McCawley (piano): Live-streamed from Wigmore Hall, London, on the Wigmore Hall YouTube channel, 10.10.2020. (RB)
