United Kingdom Prom 42 – Elgar, Chopin and Strauss: Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 16.8.2023. (CS)
Claire Seymour
Southern sunshine and Nordic twilight: John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic at the Proms
United Kingdom Prom 26 – Barry, Walton, Sibelius: James Ehnes (violin), BBC Philharmonic / John Storgårds (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 3.7.2023. (CS)
Honest commitment and intensity from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Proms
United Kingdom Prom 24 – Karabits, Mozart, Rachmaninov: Felix Klieser (horn), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 24.7.2023. (CS)
Piano Pioneers: Clare Hammond at the Three Choirs Festival
United Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [6] – Hélène de Montgeroult, Ravel, Beethoven, Coleridge-Taylor, Albéniz: Clare Hammond (piano). Holy Trinity Church, Longlevens, Gloucester, 24.7.2023. (CS)
The Tippett Quartet premiere Noah Max’s Quartet No.2 at the Thaxted Festival
United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Noah Max, Holst, Schumann: Tippett Quartet (John Mills & Jeremy Isaac [violins], Lydia Lowndes-Northcott [viola], Bosidar Vukotic [cello]), Emma Abbate (piano). The Church of Saint John the Baptist with Our Lady and Saint Laurence, Thaxted, 1.7.2023. (CS)
Sasha Regan’s all-male Mikado offers innocent fun at Wilton’s
United Kingdom Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado: Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 19.6.2023. (CS)
English Violin Sonatas in Dorchester Abbey
United Kingdom Delius, Howells, Milford, Holst, Blackwood, Ireland: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Peter Cartwright (piano). Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 27.5.2023. (CS)
Refined, rhapsodic playing from Inmo Yang with the BBC SO at the Barbican
United Kingdom Bacewicz, Dvořák, Bartók: Inmo Yang (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15.4.2023. (CS)