United Kingdom Purcell, Haydn, Ravel: Sacconi Quartet (Ben Hancox [violin], Hannah Dawson [violin], Robin Ashwell [viola], Cara Berridge [cello]), Wigmore Hall, London, 22.7. 2021. (CS)
Discerning playing by the Sacconi Quartet at Wigmore Hall
Claire Seymour
The Synchron Stage Orchestra play Brahms’ Fourth Symphony ‘On Air’
Austria Brahms: Synchron Stage Orchestra/ Johannes Vogel (conductor). Synchron Stage, Vienna (live stream), 23.5.2021. (CS)
Superb music-making from Isserlis and Rushdie Momen at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Kabalevsky, Janáček, Shostakovich: Steven Isserlis (cello), Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano). Livestreamed from Wigmore Hall, London, on 2.2.2021. (CS)
Subtlety and sunshine from Ibragimova and Tiberghien at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Franck: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, recorded live and streamed on 19.1.2021. (CS)
The Event Horizon: hope and ambition from Simon Armitage and The Hallé
United Kingdom The Hallé Winter Season, Episode 3 – The Event Horizon: Simon Armitage (Poet Laureate), Jess Gillam (saxophone), The Hallé / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Broadcast from Hallé St Peters, Manchester, 14.1.2021. (CS)
(c) The Hallé
Refined music-making by Bostridge, Connolly and the Carducci Quartet at Barbican Hall
United Kingdom Vaughan Williams, Chausson: Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Carducci String Quartet (Matthew Denton & Michelle Fleming [violins], Eoin Schmidt-Martin [viola], Emma Denton [cello]), Barbican Hall, London, 1.11.2020. (CS)
Captivating Schubert from Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton in Leeds
United Kingdom Leeds Lieder – Liszt, Brahms, Wolf, Schubert: Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Nardus Williams (soprano) Joseph Middleton (piano), Leeds Town Hall, Leeds (live stream), 31.10.2020. (CS)
Bostridge and Middleton conjure the urgency and despair of Schubert’s winter wanderer at Leeds Lieder
United Kingdom Leeds Lieder – Schubert: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Harriet Burns soprano, Joseph Middleton (piano). Leeds Town Hall (live stream), 29.10.2020. (CS)
