BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Martyn Brabbins conducts Sibelius’s Tapiola & Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony; Elizabeth Llewellyn sings Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Martyn Brabbins conducts Sibelius’s Tapiola & Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony; Elizabeth Llewellyn sings Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Nov 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Letter from Sibelius to VW dated August 22, 1952 Thursday, November 24, 2022 City Halls, Glasgow The elemental Tapiola (Tapio, forest god), 1926, and the mostly serene if transporting Fifth Symphony made for a telling contrast, Vaughan Williams dedicating the Fifth to...
WDR Sinfonieorchester – Dima Slobodeniouk premieres Liszt-Glanert and conducts Schumann’s Fourth Symphony; Martin Helmchen plays Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. Live webcast.

WDR Sinfonieorchester – Dima Slobodeniouk premieres Liszt-Glanert and conducts Schumann’s Fourth Symphony; Martin Helmchen plays Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. Live webcast.

Nov 22, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Saturday, November 19, 2022 Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The ‘Prussian Apollo’, Prince Louis Ferdinand was born this past weekend two-hundred-and-fifty years ago – November 18, 1772. In Friedrichsfelde Castle near...
Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra – Martyn Brabbins conducts Judith Weir’s Heroic Strokes of the Bow & Shostakovich’s ‘The Year 1905’ Symphony No.11; Daniel Hogan conducts the premiere of Anian Wiedner’s Sesquialtera. Live RCM webcast.

Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra – Martyn Brabbins conducts Judith Weir’s Heroic Strokes of the Bow & Shostakovich’s ‘The Year 1905’ Symphony No.11; Daniel Hogan conducts the premiere of Anian Wiedner’s Sesquialtera. Live RCM webcast.

Nov 17, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Videos

Thursday, November 17, 2022 Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, London The concert opened with the bright tones of Judith Weir’s Heroic Strokes of the Bow, after artwork by Paul Klee, energetic and rhythmic music, with a lyrical centre, for...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Andrew Norman’s Unstuck & Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Symphony in F-sharp, with Noah Bendix-Blagley playing Mozart’s B-flat Violin Concerto, K207. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Andrew Norman’s Unstuck & Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Symphony in F-sharp, with Noah Bendix-Blagley playing Mozart’s B-flat Violin Concerto, K207. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Nov 4, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Andrew Norman (born 1979) Friday, November 4, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Music by Grand Rapids-born Andrew Norman opened this latest DCH webcast. Unstuck (2008) owes to three words found in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five,...