May 21, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, May 21, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Haydn’s B-flat Symphony 102 occupied the first half. With the Berlin strings appropriately laid out, led (I’m pretty sure) by Rainer Honeck from the Vienna Philharmonic – antiphonal...
May 21, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Thursday, May 19, 2022 Westminster Abbey, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Monteverdi’s Vespers have become indelibly associated with Venice (the theme of this year’s London Festival of Baroque Music) on account of the composer’s long association with the...
May 16, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Photo, Barbican/Mark Allan Sunday, May 15, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed The last time I heard Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra was in this venue in November 2019, just a few weeks before the pandemic got a grip. Then the...
May 15, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Saturday, May 14, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This was Khatia Buniatishvili’s rescheduled Barbican recital after she cancelled last October. She also radically changed her programme, offering a Saturday-night-is-music-night medley of familiar...
May 14, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) Saturday, May 14, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Gerhard and Dvořák are rare concert bedfellows, although Simon Rattle has previously done so,...
May 14, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Photo, BBC/Mark Allan Friday, May 13, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This concert from Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBCSO was a bit of a mixed bag, ranging from worthy-but-dull to stupendous. And it began very beguilingly with Wigglesworth peering...