![Hamburg: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – Alan Gilbert conducts Adès & Beethoven – Igor Levit & Pedro Miguel Freire play Shostakovich [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/iglev.gif)
Jun 27, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Friday, June 26, 2020 Großer Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany No audience, carefully chosen reduced-forces repertoire for our distancing times … Thomas Adès’s 1990 Chamber Symphony is scored thus: “fl(=picc+afl).ob.basset cl.bcl – hn.tpt(=wine...
Jun 26, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, June 26, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Alexander Hall What’s this? Two days after Midsummer Day and amid stifling temperatures a journey through Winter? In a strange kind of way Schubert’s final song-cycle makes perfect sense, not only as a parable...
![Laeiszhalle Hamburg: Martha Argerich & Renaud Capuçon play Sonatas by Beethoven, Chopin & Franck [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mar.jpg)
Jun 26, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Thursday, June 25, 2020 Grosser Saal, Laeiszhalle, Johannes-Brahms-Platz, 20355 Hamburg, Germany Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Another chamber recital from Martha Argerich, another one-man/support act show. “Martha Argerich & Renaud Capuçon” went the billing, and...
![Sychrov Castle: Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; Stanislav Masaryk plays Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cz.jpeg)
Jun 25, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Sychrov Castle, 463 44 Sychrov, Czech Republic Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga A chilly night, dropping to 9C, leaden skies, a touch of eggshell blue following sunset, wet green lawns, ancient trees in midsummer dress, birds in evening song. This...
Jun 23, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Mozart’s B-flat Duo, K424, opens in richly expressive terms leading into a complex exposition of contrapuntal depth that suggests more than two instruments are being played, an illusion enhanced by Benjamin Baker and...
Jun 22, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Monday, June 22, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Amanda-Jane Doran “Celebrated countertenor Iestyn Davies presents a programme with one of Europe’s leading lute players, Elizabeth Kenny. Together they explore repertoire from the 16th to 19th...
