REVIEWS OF LIVE EVENTS - 2009
December 2009
Jonathan Dove – The Enchanted Pig (Royal Opera)
Clare College Choir - Christmas concert
Puccini – La Bohème (Royal Opera)
Mozart Cosi (English Chamber Opera)
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte (Royal College of Music)
Howard Blake: The Snowman
CONCERTS
Mozart, Janacek & Beethoven (Doric String Quartet)
Haydn & CPE Bach (Melvyn Tan fortepiano)
Mendelssohn and Schubert (Kreutzers and friends)
Blake Birthday Concert (2009)
Schumann and Musorgsky (Sergei Leiferkus)
Karlowicz, Musorgsky, Chopin & Haydn (Ewa Podles & Garrick Ohlsson)
Frith, Cutler & Potter - (live improvisation in film and concert at Goldsmith's)
Bliss, Bridge Delius,
Patterson, Wilson (Enikő Magya, viola)
Smetana, Martinů and Brahms (Concertgebouw/Jansons)
Contemporary Organ Music (Michael Bonaventure)
Haydn, Schubert & Shostakovich (Belcea Quartet & Valentin Erben at Wigmore Hall)
Handel in Italy (Classical Opera Company)
George Crumb at The Barbican
Beethoven (Sir Colin Davis at Royal Academy of Music)
Shostakovich & Rachmaninov (Pletnev & Lugansky)
Hagen Quartet
November 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Donizetti L'Assedio di Calais (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)
Donizetti – Maria di Rohan (Royal Festival Hall)
CONCERTS
ARCANTO QUARTET RESIDENCY AT WIGMORE HALL
Dutilleux, Mendelssohn & Schubert (Arcanto Quartet with Olivier Marron)
Webern & Brahms (Arcanto Quartet with Joerg Widmann)
Kurtag and Dvorak (Arcanto Quartet with Silke Avenhaus, piano)
Lenia Safiropoulou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Campra, Desmarest, Lully & Rameau - Grand Motets (Christie/Les Arts Florissants)
Schnittke “Between Two Worlds”
Purcell Odes (St Cecilia Day concert)
Jenkins, Purcell, Couperin & Handel (London Baroque/Kirkby)
Cras, Martinu & Mozart (Lendvai String Trio)
New Irish Music (Petcu-Colan & McHale)
Chopin Etudes (Louis Lortie)
JMcCabe: Symphony, Labyrinth etc (Kensington Symphony Orchestra)
Mendelssohn & Beethoven Quartets (Emerson Quartet)
Avison & Herschel; Handel & Vivaldi (Avison Ensemble)
Panufnik and Dvorák - and Andrew Poppy
Elision - Clarinets at King's Place
Debussy & Villa-Lobos (Cristina Ortiz at Queen Elisabeth Hall)
EXAUDI at the Warehouse
Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart & C Stamitz (Eniko Magyar, viola)
"Best of British" - Casken, Harvey, Bainbridge & Clarke at Wigmore Hall
Shesh Besh at Temple Church
October 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Cape Town Opera)
L'Heure espagnole & Gianni Schicchi (Double bill at Royal Opera House)
Puccini Turandot (ENO)
Handel Flavio (ETO's Handelfest)
CONCERTS
Rautavaara and Bruckner (LPO at RFH)
Strauß and Adams Strauß (Royal Academy of Music)
Wallin, Xenakis, Lindbergh etc Nordland Festival at Cadogan Hall
Out Hear: new music::new Ireland (Morgan & Dullea at Kings Place)
Cropper/Welsh/Roscoe Trio (City Music Society)
St James Wind Quintet (Royal Academy of Music)
Bach (Mullova & Dantone)
September 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Griffiths A new world (Shakespeare's Globe)
Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera)
Verdi Rigoletto at ENO (12th revival of Miller production)
CONCERTS
Schubert & Mahler from Nuremberg Chamber Music Festival
Andrew Kennedy & Roger Vignoles (Sunday afternoon at Wigmore Hall)
Bach Violin Recital (Viktoria Mullova)
Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel (Alexandra Dariescu, Leonidas Kavakos, LSO/Gergiev)
Franck & Whitty (Morgan & Dullea @ Schotts)
Birthday Concerts - John McCabe and Imogen Cooper
Film & Ancient Music (Academy of Ancient Music)
Bite-size Baroque (OAE at Kings Place)
Three organ recitals
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust (Donato/White LSO/Gergiev)
Schumann & Mozart piano trios (Tetzlaffs / Andsnes)
The Proms
Late Night Proms 66 & 75
Proms PCM 15 & 16; Chamber Music at Cadogan Hall
Prom 53 - (OAE/Norrington/DiDonato)
Prom 60 - Argerich & RPO/Charles Dutoit
Prom 61 - Sibelius, Duparc & Ravel (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons & Magdalena Kocenzá)
Prom 62 - Haydn/Shostakovich (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons)
Prom 67 - McCabe, Janacek & Dvorak
Prom 68 - Handel The Messiah (Youth Choirs with Northern Sinfonia/McGegan)
July/August 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Beethoven Fidelio at the Proms (Waltraud Meier etc, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Barenboim
Chun Yi at the Coliseum
Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2009
Verdi Un ballo in maschera (Opera Holland Park)
Janacek Katya Kabanova (Opera Holland Park)
Euripides/McGuinness Helen at Shakespeaer's Globe
Purcell Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne at the Proms)
Handel Partenope (Prom 4)
Birtwistle Semper Dowland, semper dolens; The Corridor
Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida at The Globe
CONCERTS
Indian, Chinese and Japanese Music (AMC)
Dvorak in Spillville (Kreutzers & guests at Wilton's)
Fauré at Wilton's (Kreutzers & Roy Howat at Wilton's)
Beethoven Explored - 'The Lost Works...' (Kreutzer Quartet/Aaron Shorr at Wilton's)
The Proms
First night
Prom10: Takemitsu, Debussy, Ravel, Sarasate, Hosokawa
Prom 15: Smetana, Bartók, Martinu and Stravinsky
Prom 19: Berlioz and Mendelssohn - Hallé/Elder
Prom 25 - Berlioz, Michael Jarrell and Beethoven
Prom 33 - Antheil, John Adams, Bartók and Stravinsky
Prom 33 - Ravel, Unsuk Chin and Stravinsky (Alban Gerhardt, cello, & BBC SSO/Volkov)
Prom 41 - Indian Voices Day
Prom 50 - Fidelio
June 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Martinu Mirandolina & The Marriage
Donizetti – Roberto Devereux (Opera Holland Park)
Humperdinck – Hansel und Gretel (Opera Holland Park)
Strauss – Die Fledermaus (London Lyric Opera)
Early 17 C Italian Opera (Early Opera Company)
Martin Georgiev – The Mirror (Royal Academy of Music, London)
CONCERTS
Vivaldi 4 Seasons, Tüür & Rautavaara( Britten Sinfonia Violinist/Kraggerud)
Swedish Music from 18th to 21st centuries (Christian Lindberg & Nordic Chamber Orchestra)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord recital)
Bach & Handel/Dupré, Robert Walker, Franck, Escaich (James McVinnie, organ recital)
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Tüür, Rautavaara (City of London Festival 2009)
Revolutionary Violin - disciples and friends of Viotti
Menno van Delft - clavichord recital and master class (Royal Academy of Music)
Lucas/John duo; Brodowski Quartet
Ustvolskaya 90th Birthday Celebration
Radius at Wigmore Hall
Charles T Griffes - a celebration at Wigmore Hall
Schubert - Goerne & Eschenbach
1.
Die schoene Mullerin
2. Schwanengesang
Bach Goldberg Variations (Calefax Reed Quintet)
Vaughan Williams and Friends (Tynan, Burggraaf etc)
Berg & Mahler (Salonen)
Grieg & Sibelius Songs (Katerina Karnéus & Julius Drake)
Isserlis, Pletnev & Rachmaninov (Steven Isserlis & Kirill Gerstein)
May 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Schnittke & Crumb at Goldsmiths
Handel Agrippina (Zurich Opera in London)
The English Dancing Master (Harp Consort at Lufthans Baroque Music Festival 2009)
Britten Peter Grimes (ENO 2009)
Rossini L'Occasione (Royal Academy Opera)
Wagner Lohengrin (Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
Mussorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition (Kramer, Young Vic)
Britten – Death in Venice (Staatsoper Hamburg)
Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe (Music by Nigel Hess)
Ché Walker The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe)
CONCERTS
Khachaturian, Athinodorou, Rusconi, Vanneschi etc (Notting Hill Mayfest)
Britten, Gothe, Hillborg & Stenhammar (Stenhammar Quartet at Swedish Hall, London)
Schwanewilms/Vignoles recital at Wigmore Hall
RAM - Wigmore Award 2009 (Bic, Davis, Ciric & Siderova)
Mahler, Mendelssohn & Rasch (London Philharmonic Orchestra/Jurowski)
Dowland, Lawes, Purcell and Green (Emma Kirkby at Lufthansa Festival)
Eccles & Purcell (Early Opera Company at Lufthansa Festival)
Haydn Weekend:
1. Schiff Trio, Quatuor Mozaiques (Wigmore Hall)
2. Robert Levin, fortepiano (South Bank Centre)
Haydn & Mozart (Nash Ensemble)
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba recital)
Beethoven & Ravel (Barbirolli Quartet)
A Rostropovich Day (Knaifel, Penderecki etc)
Barrett, Cassidy, Dillon, & Redgate (fracture/fissure at King’s Place)
Schumann and Brahms (Kate Royal)
French Piano Music - Roy Howat Masterclass & book launch (Royal Academy of Music)
April 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Stockhausen – In the sky I am walking … (Iara ensemble at The Space)
CONCERTS
Dvorak & Schubert (Bernarda Fink mezzo & Gerold Huber piano)
Michala Petri & Lars Hannibal (East Meets West)
Kancheli, Silvestrov & Yusopov (LPO/Jurowski/Maisky)
Goebbels Songs from Wars
Bloch jubilee concert (Goldner Quartet/Piers Lane)
Lalo & Milhaud (Quatuor Debussy)
Bach, Fauré, Debussy, Chopin (Charles Owen, piano)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos (Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
national youth orchestra of great britain/Paul Daniel
Bach Preludes & improvised meditations (Matthew Barley, cellos)
Charpentier Lecons de ténébres (Les Talens Lyriques)
Beethoven, Hummel, Kurtág & Mendelssohn (Vienna Piano Trio)
Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela at Royal Festival Hall
Darbar at South Bank
Hans Abrahamsen Portrait Concert (Philharmonia Orchestra/de Ridder)
Fauré, Maazel & Sibelius (Philharmonia/Maazel)
NMC Songbook at Kings Place
Felicity Lott & Graham Johnson (entente cordiale at Wigmore Hall)
Mezzos from RAM
FEBRUARY/MARCH 2009
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Bloch Macbeth (University College Opera)
Osnat Schmool's Drive, Ride, Walk (Goldsmiths College)
Martinu Juliette (BBC at Barbican)
Haydn – La fedelta premiata (Royal Academy Opera)
Sallinen – The King Goes Forth to France (Guildhall School, London)
In the Dark (improvised opera at Trinity Laban, London)
Martynov - Vita Nuova
CONCERTS
Jordi Savall viola da gamba recital
Red Priest live at Cadogan Hall
Kiku Day (jinashi shakuhachi recital)
Widmann & Schubert (Artemis Quartet)
Xenakis - Total Immersion Day
Ballads, Ayres & Dances from 17th C. Scotland (Pantagruel at St Bride's & Cambridge)
Berg & Mahler (Uchida, Tetzlaff, Philharmonia/Salonen)
Brahms Piano Quintet (Uchida & Hagens)
Nash Ensemble (Nash Inventions)
Haydn Symphonies & Concertos (ensembleF2 debut concert)
DUDAMEL's MAHLER (Symphony No.5 at Royal Festival Hall)
Nyman, Glass, Bryars, Reich (Delta Saxophone Quartet)
Fidelio Trio: Ricordi – Beyond 200
Brahms Handel Variations (Uri Caine at Laban)
Mary Dullea & Darragh Morgan at Bauer and Hiebe
Ian Pace, piano recital
Haydn The Return of Tobias [OAE/Roger Norrington]
Mahler & Beethoven/Mahler (Goerne, LPO/ LPO/Järvi) Tristan Murail (BBC's Total Immersion Day)
JANUARY 2009
CONCERTS
Mozart, Schubert & Widmann (Artemis Quartet)
Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi & Zelenka (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment)
Martinu & Rachmaninov etc (LPO & Philharmonia Saturdays)
Carter & Woolrich (London Sinfonietta)
Beethoven, Mendelssohn & Ravel (Wihan Quartet)
Ligeti, Kodály, Stantchinsky & Beethoven (Barralet & Takenouchi)
Stockhausen Total Immersion Day (The Barbican)
Mahler – Debussy – Grieg (Karen Cargill)
Diabelli Variations etc (Stephen Kovacevich)
PLG Young Artists
Haydn, Ives, Janacek & Smetana (Florestan Trio)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann & András Schiff (Wigmore Hall recital)
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Orff Carmina Burana (O2, Greenwich)
Beggar's Opera (Linbury ROH) Korngold - Die tote Stadt |
