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Bruch Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano Nos 2, 4, 5 & 6; Jörg Widmann Fantasie; György Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann; Mozart Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E-flat major, ‘Kegelstatt’: Antoine Tamestit viola; Jörg Widmann clarinet; Frank Braley piano This was a really lovely chamber music concert, at lunchtime in LSOContinue reading “Bruch, Widmann, Kurtag, Mozart – LSO St Luke’s: Tamestit, Widmann, Braley”

Sean Panikkar (M.K. Gandhi), Musa Ngqungwana (Lord Krishna), William Thomas (Parsi Rustomji), Felicity Buckland (Kasturbai), James Cleverton (Mr Kallenbach), Sarah Pring (Mrs Alexander), Ross Ramgobin (Prince Arjuna), Gabriella Cassidy (Miss Schlesen). Conductor: Carolyn Kuan, Director: Phelim McDermott, Revival Director: Peter Relton, Set Designer/Associate Director: Julian Crouch Unwittingly – sort of – I had booked myselfContinue reading “Satyagraha / Glass – ENO at the London Coliseum: 14/10/21”

Conductor, Richard Hetherington. Cast – Tamino, Bernard Richter; Pamina, Christina Gansch; Papageno, Peter Kellner; Queen of the Night, Aleksandra Olczyk; Sarastro, Krzysztof Baczyk; Monostatos, Peter Hoare; Papagena, Alexandra Lowe. Director, David McVicar (Revival Director, Daniel Dooner); Designer. John Macfarlane Both Jenufa the previous evening and this performance of the Magic Flute were extremely well attended.Continue reading “Mozart – The Magic Flute: ROHCG, 07/10/21”

Mr Antipov graduated from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, BMus (Hons) Performance, in 2017. He has performed widely in the UK since then with local music societies and events. This was a lunch hour concert I caught sight of on the internet, as I was in London for Jenufa and the MagicContinue reading “Svyatoslav Antipov, piano: Liszt, Chopin&Ravel – St Olave’s, Hart St, London EC3”

Conductor-Henrik Nánási: cast – Jenufa: Asmik Grigorian; Kostelnicka: Karita Mattila; Laca: Nicky Spence; Števa: Saimir Pirgu. Director: Claus Guth; Set designer, Michael Levine This was exactly the sort of performance and production which should give opera a good name among those who expect from it standards of acting, production and design similar to those you’dContinue reading “Janacek – Jenufa: ROHCG 6/10/21”

Sir Mark Elder conductor | Baiba Skride violin: Wagner, Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I; Sofia Gubaidulina, Offertorium; Elgar, Symphony No.1 This time at the Bridgewater Hall the Halle orchestra seemed to have a ‘normal’ full orchestra on stage – 10 cellos. 8 double basses. The Halle made a glorious sound in the Elgar, and theContinue reading “Wagner/Gubaidulina/Elgar: Halle / Skride/Elder – Bridgewater Hall, 30/9/21”

London Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner conductor. Cast – Robert Murray, Mark; Rachel Nicholls, Jenifer; Ashley Riches, King Fisher; Jennifer France, Bella; Toby Spence, Jack; Claire Barnett-Jones, Sosostris; Susan Bickley, She-Ancient; Joshua Bloom, He-Ancient. London Philharmonic Choir, English National Opera Chorus I got to know this work quite well as a student and bought the vinyl setContinue reading “Tippett – The Midsummer Marriage, concert performance – Gardner, LPO. Tippett – The Midsummer Marriage, concert performance – Gardner, LPO. RFH 25/9/21”

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Ravel Piano Concerto in G; Thea Musgrave Song of the Enchanter; Sibelius Symphony No.2 – Sir Mark Elder conductor, Benjamin Grosvenor piano, Halle Orchestra. This was another great concert. It was a joy to hear an orchestra in the Bridgewater Hall so soon after being inContinue reading “Vaughan Williams / Ravel / Musgrave / Sibelius: Halle, Elder, Grosvenor – Bridgewater Hall, 23/9/21”

Bruckner Discarded Scherzo (1876) and Discarded Finale, ‘Volksfest’ (1878) from Symphony No 4, ed. Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs; Bruckner Symphony No 4, ‘Romantic’ (1878–81), ed. Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs*: Sir Simon Rattle conductor, London Symphony Orchestra An absorbing evening. The Barbican sounds very boxy and confined after the spaces of the Albert Hall for which this music is ideallyContinue reading “Bruckner: LSO, Rattle; Barbican 19/9/21”

Benjamin Nabarro violin, Gemma Rosefield cello, Tim Horton piano: Haydn Piano Trio in C Hob XV:21 and Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor Op.65. Neither of these pieces were known to me. The Haydn is a product of his second visit to London, and sounded poised and confident, like the London symphonies. The playing seemedContinue reading “Ensemble 360: Haydn/Dvorak; Upper Chapel, Sheffield, 17/9/21”