United Kingdom Stravinsky, Adès, Lutosławski: Kirill Gerstein (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Adès (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London 26.9.2018. (CS)
Thomas Adès Gets the LPO’s New Season off to a Cracking Start
Claire Seymour
Characterful Musical Arguments from the Cuarteto Casals at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Haydn, Prokofiev, Brahms: Alexander Melnikov (piano), Cuarteto Casals [Abel Tomàs & Vera Martínez Mahner (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)], Wigmore Hall, London, 20.9.2018. (CS)
Exhilarating Szymanowski from Janine Jansen and the LSO
United Kingdom Janáček, Szymanowski, Sibelius: Janine Jansen (violin), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 19.9.2018. (CS)
A Magnificent, Imaginatively Presented Berlioz Prom
United Kingdom BBC PROM 71 – Berlioz: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.9.2018. (CS)
Marin Alsop Leads a Fine Centenary Tribute to Her Mentor, Leonard Bernstein
United Kingdom PROM 60 – Bernstein, Shostakovich: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet (piano), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 27.8.2018. (CS)
Joshua Bell and the ASMF Bring Sparkling Collective Music-Making to the Proms
United Kingdom BBC Prom 40 – Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Bridge, Beethoven: Joshua Bell (violin/director), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Albert Hall, London, 12.8.2018. (CS)
The NYO’s Prom Shows the Sheer Joy of Music-Making
United Kingdom BBC PROM 28 – Mussorgsky, Benjamin, Ravel, Ligeti, Debussy: Tamara Stefanovich (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / George Benjamin (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London 5.8.2018. (CS)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
A Hero’s Life: BBC NOW Present a Compelling Narrative at the Proms
United Kingdom BBC PROM 24 – Ethel Smyth, Dvořák, Richard Strauss: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Otto Tausk (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.8.2018. (CS)
