United Kingdom LSO Futures: Homage to Pierre Boulez: London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 26.1.2025. (CC)
New music demanding much from the listeners is given full respect by Maxime Pascal and the LSO
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Brilliant pianist and beloved friend: Angela Hewitt returns to Wigmore Hall in a glittering programme
United Kingdom Handel, Bach, Haydn and Brahms: Angela Hewitt (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 23.1.2025. (CSa)
Powerful and exceptional Wigmore Hall concert commemorating the Holocaust
United Kingdom Music in Auschwitz: Commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, various soloists, Wigmore Hall, London, 23.1.2025 (MBr)
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)
Two cleverly connected programmes across the centuries and a tour-de-force by the Juilliard String Quartet
United Kingdom Schubert, Beethoven and Widmann: Juilliard String Quartet – Areta Zhulla (violin), Ronald Copes (violin), Molly Carr (viola) Astrid Schween (cello). Wigmore Hall, London. 19.1.2025 and 20.1.2025 (CSa)
Noah Zhou’s tremendous Wigmore Hall recital… even with the minor quibble
United Kingdom Rachmaninoff, Clementi, Liszt: Noah Zhou (piano). Wigmore Hall, 15.1.2025. (MBr)
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)
