Česká filharmonie/Czech Philharmonic – live on STAGE+ – Semyon Bychkov conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, with Seong-Jin Cho playing Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto.

Česká filharmonie/Czech Philharmonic – live on STAGE+ – Semyon Bychkov conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, with Seong-Jin Cho playing Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto.

Sep 26, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Ravel 150: born 1875 on March 7, Videos

Friday, September 26, 2025 Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague The opening of the Czech Philharmonic’s 25-26 Season (its 130th), with this programme previously played the evening before, both therefore conspicuously lacking a shortish starter (overtures are too...
LSO – live on Stage+ – Antonio Pappano conducts Symphonies by Shostakovich (No.9) and Beethoven (the Fifth), with Seong-Jin Cho playing Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.

LSO – live on Stage+ – Antonio Pappano conducts Symphonies by Shostakovich (No.9) and Beethoven (the Fifth), with Seong-Jin Cho playing Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.

Sep 18, 2025 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Ravel 150: born 1875 on March 7, Shostakovich - died fifty years ago, on August 9, 1975, Videos

Thursday, September 18, 2025 Barbican Hall, London Having opened the new season with the Third Symphonies of Bernstein (‘Kaddish’) and Copland, the latter played again early evening yesterday, Sir Antonio and the LSO coupled two further such works here,...
BBC Proms 2025 – Sinfonia of London. John Wilson conducts Don Juan & Daphnis et Chloé, with James Ehnes playing Bernstein’s Serenade. Live on BBC Radio 3 (and reviewed from BBC Sounds).

BBC Proms 2025 – Sinfonia of London. John Wilson conducts Don Juan & Daphnis et Chloé, with James Ehnes playing Bernstein’s Serenade. Live on BBC Radio 3 (and reviewed from BBC Sounds).

Sep 13, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Ravel 150: born 1875 on March 7

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, September 12, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London This penultimate Prom of the 2025 Season clashed directly with a concert live from Dublin (which I didn’t want to miss). John Wilson started with a dashing and expressive Strauss Don...
BBC Proms 2025 – Philharmonia Orchestra. Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated Ravel), and Bruce Liu plays Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2025 – Philharmonia Orchestra. Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated Ravel), and Bruce Liu plays Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 20, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Ravel 150: born 1875 on March 7, Videos

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Wednesday, August 20, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London Mexican watering holes, a tour of, plenty of percussion (timpani solos), rhythm, rhythm, rhythm – thus spake Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis of her native nightclubs, dancehalls,...
BBC Proms 2025 – London Philharmonic Orchestra. Edward Gardner conducts Sibelius’s The Oceanides, Tippett’s The Rose Lake, and Debussy’s La mer, with Aigul Akhmetshina singing Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2025 – London Philharmonic Orchestra. Edward Gardner conducts Sibelius’s The Oceanides, Tippett’s The Rose Lake, and Debussy’s La mer, with Aigul Akhmetshina singing Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 10, 2025 | BBC Proms 2025, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Ravel 150: born 1875 on March 7

Sunday, August 10, 2025 Royal Albert Hall, London This mouth-watering collection of works, any one of which is off-the-scale enticing, needed top-class performances to enhance the keen anticipation this concert engendered. The LPO and Edward Gardner duly delivered....