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Mirga & CBSO return to Symphony Hall, November 4.

Nov 5, 2020 | Concert Reviews

Richard Whitehouse’s review for Classical Source is here: https://www.classicalsource.com/concert/mirga-the-cbso/

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Strauss’s Metamorphosen & Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony … Sabina & 4’33” [live webcast]

Nov 1, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Saturday, October 31, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga A fortnight ago the Berliner Philharmoniker and Minkowski were regaling us with ‘period’ Haydn and Promethean Beethoven...

Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen at Royal Festival Hall – Ravel – Julia Bullock sings Les Illuminations [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast]

Oct 29, 2020 | Concert Reviews

Thursday, October 29, 2020 Southbank Centre, London – Royal Festival Hall Opening his final season as the Philharmonia’s principal conductor (he’s off to the San Francisco Symphony), for this no-audience/without-interval concert Esa-Pekka Salonen chose Ravel fore and...

Wigmore Hall – Francesco Piemontesi plays Lachenmann, Schubert & Liszt [Wigmore livestream]

Oct 29, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga On another Covid-19 day of closures and lockdowns, our “out of control” world in hastening downward spiral, bleak prospects ahead, this recital from the Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi...

Wigmore Hall – Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver play Beethoven & Franck [Wigmore livestream]

Oct 26, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Monday, October 26, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Back in my Guildford days during the late-eighties/early-nineties all talk was about the local Hanslip family and their two prodigious daughters – Virginia, piano, and Chloë, violin, then not yet...

Wigmore Hall – Jonathan Plowright plays Brahms & Chopin [live webcast]

Oct 23, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Thursday, October 22, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Liszt’s birthday but no more than a pianistic glimmer of the man in this recital, Jonathan Plowright focussing rather on his younger German contemporary, Brahms, with a nod in the direction of...