Musical Pointers Live
REVIEWS OF LIVE EVENTS - 2010
December 2010
CONCERTS
Mozart Unwrapped 1 (OAE & Kristian Bezuidenhout)
Bach, Telemann & Vivaldi [Brecon Baroque]
Dalbavie Oboe Concerto (Alexei Ogrintchouk & BBCSO/Bělohlávek)
Purcell Harmonia Sacra (Les Talens Lyriques)
Schumann & Lachner (Mark Padmore & Kristian Bezuidenhout)
Noëlle Mann memorial concert
November 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Raskatov A Dog's Heart (ENO/Complicité)
Cosi at RAM
Don Giovanni at ENO
Peri O Miei Giorni (Transition Opera)
CONCERTS
Monteverdi: Vespers (1610) at Cadogan Hall & Temple Church
Bach at lunchtime (Andrew Benson-Wilson - organ)
Stravinsky on Pianola (Rex Lawson)
Rzewski and Skempton (Noszferatu)
Risør Festival of Chamber Music
Dvořák, Mozart & Mysliveček (ECO)
Purcell Harmonia Sacra (Les Talens Lyriques)
October 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Don Giovanni at Glasgow
Shashank & Sirisha Shashank (Indian music and dance)
Rossini Aurelio at Palmira (Opera Rara)
CONCERTS
Monteverdi Vespers (Ex Cathedra)
Berio, Fujikura, Aperghis , Lachenmann & Toop (OKEANOS at Kings Place)
Matthews, Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky (Sitkovetsky Piano Trio)
Music in Glasgow
Festlicher Bach (The King's Consort)
Enescu, Hindemith, Ligeti, Piazzolla etc (Hardenberger and Pöntinen)
Cage & Scarlatti (David Greilsammer, piano & prepared piano)
Mackerras Memorial Concert (Trinity College of Music)
Lachenmann Weekend at South Bank Centre
September 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Bedlam at The Globe
Faust at ENO
CONCERTS
Colin Matthews & Sibelius (Philharmonia Orchestra/Masson/Salonen)
Granados, Ravel, Rossini, Schubert etc songs (Clara Mouriz & Joseph Middleton)
Schubert, Schumann Brahms (Anthony Marwood violin Aleksandar Madzar piano)
Tartini, Berio etc (Peter Sheppard Skærved, Morgan Goff)
Shostakovich, Debussy, Dubugnon etc (Katya Apekisheva, piano)
Berg, Brahms, Sibelius & Strauss songs (Mattila & Katz)
Wigmore Hall 110th Anniversary Opening Celebrations
Kirschlager & Bostridge;
Connolly;
Tokyo Quartet
Coffee Concert (Madzar and Marwood at Wigmore Hall)
August 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Peri - O miei giorni (Transition Opera)
Zandonai Francesca da Rimini (Opera Holland Park)
North Indian Music & Dance
July 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Verdi La Forza del Destino - Opera Holland Park
Shakespeare Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Globe Theatre)
Mozart Don Giovanni ( Opera Holland Park)
Beethoven – Fidelio (Opera Holland Park)
Free tickets for Zandonai at Opera Holland Park
CONCERTS
Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven (Malcolm Bilson, fortpiano)
Brahms & Dvorak (Kreutzer String Quintet)
"L'Écrit du Cri"- Ensemble Jannequin
Beethoven, Ireland & Dvorak (The Gould Piano Trio)
Mahler 8th - BBC/Jiří Bělohlávek (First Night of the Proms 2010)
Richard Tauber Prize Recital (Christopher Ainslie)
Sohal & Debussy (Dante String Quartet & Sally Silver soprano)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 (Mikhail Shilyaev & Konstantin Lapshin - pianos)
June 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Bizet Carmen (Opera Holland Park)
Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (Opera Holland Park 2010)
Britten's Albert Herring (Guildhall School, etc)
Mozart Zaide (Contemporary Opera Company)
Mozart – Idomeneo (ENO at The Coliseum)
Bizet The Pearl Fishers (ENO)
CONCERTS
Mahan Estfahani, Daniela Lehner & Sulki Yu (COLF)
Upendra Bhat at Bhavan
Rosario & Meneses at Drapers Hall (COLF)
Ortiz & Carneiro at COLF
Czech Artists in Czech Music (Anglo-CzechTrust)
Haas, Krasa, Schulhof, Ullmann etc (Terezin 1941-1945 commemoration concert)
Bliss, Goehr & Borisovsky (Lawrence Power, viola)
CPE Bach, Rameau & Mozart (The Wallfisch Band/Leonhardt/E Wallfisch)
Kodaly & Bach (Spitalfields Festival - 1)
Xenakis Pleiades, & "Farewells" (Spitalfields Festival - 2 & 3)
French Music (Pascal & Ami Rogé piano four hands)
Beethoven & Rachmaninov (Steven Osborne, piano)
Buxtehude, Bach, Alain etc (Huw Morgan, organ)
Schumann at 200 (Temple Song; Wolfgang Holzmair & Julius Drake)
Buxtehude & before (Andrew Benson-Wilson, organ)
O’Dwyer, Dillon, Ferneyhough etc (Members of ELISION)
Double Keyboards recital ( Koopman & Mathot, harpsichords & organs)
May 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Puccini Tosca (English National Opera)
Blow Venus and Adonis (The Original Royal Opera/Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny)
CONCERTS
Rachmaninoff (Lubimov & LPO/Järvi)
Martinu, Dvorak & Smetana (Wihan Quartet at 25)
Vivaldi (La Serenissima)
Monteverdi (I Fagiolini)
Bach/Rifkin Mass in B minor (John Butt/Dunedin Consort)
Schubert late lieder (Bostridge & Pappano)
Leseur & Runswick (Trinity College of Music at St Alfege, Greenwich)
Loewe, Schubert, Ravel & Britten Loewe (Gerald Finley & Julius Drake)
Rakesh Chaurasia (Milapfest at Purcell Room)
SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, W Kensington, London
Wissam Boustany & Aleksander Szram at St James’s, Piccadilly
Berio, Feldman, Lachenmann etc (Mark Knoop & colleagues at Café Oto, London)
Szymanowski Focus (Piotr Anderszewski etc at Wigmore Hall)
Lutoslawski & Messiaen (LSO/Gergiev)
Marchetti/Worth at Wigmore Hall
Britten, Davies & Korngold (Doric String Quartet & Roderick Williams)
March/April 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Britten - Albert Herring (Trinity College of Music Opera Company)
Gilbert & Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance (De Wynter Production at Wilton's Music Hall)
HENZE Elegy for Young Lovers (ENO at the Young Vic)
Pantagruel Nymphidia at The Forge, Camden
Britten Albert Herring (Royal Academy Opera)
Ayres In the Alps
Janacek Katya Kabanova (ENO)
Massenet Chérubin (GSMD)
CONCERTS
Britten, Shostakovich & Dvorák (Pavel Haas Quartet)
Britten, Davies & Korngold (Doric String Quartet)
Bach The Musical Offering; Concerto for two harpsichords (Ton Koopman etc)
Brahms, Mendelssohn & Schumann (Colin Carr, cello and Thomas Sauer, piano)
Liadov, Rachmaninov and Copland (LSO/Pappano, Andsnes)
Iestyn Davies recital (Temple Song)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall
Copland, Barber, Dvořák (LSO/François-Xavier Roth)
Mozart, G&S & Jim Aitchison at Wilton's and Kings Place
Varèse 360° (London Sinfonietta)
Belgravia concerts and Fazioli pianos
Mozart, Fauré, Dvorák (Panocha Quartet & Roy Howat)
Amjad Ali Khan, sarod (Wigmore Hall)
Indian Classical Music (Darbar Festival at Kings Place)
Castiglione & Anderson (London Sinfonietta
Gerald Barry & Richard Ayres (London Sinfonietta)
Lim, Dillon, Ferneyhough etc (ELISION)
Bartók & Beethoven (Janine Jansen & Itamar Golan)
Kreutzer Quartet & Lontano at South London Gallery
Shostakovich (RPO/Grzegorz Nowak at Cadogan Hall)
Weber, Brahms and Schumann [Philharmonia Orchestra/Fabio Luisi]
Elgar, John Wololrich and Britten (Royal Academy of Music)
Mozart & Chopin (Jacqueline Du Pré Charity Concert)
Poulenc and Hindemith (Royal College of Music)
Suzanne Thorn & Albina Stulpinaite (Royal Academy of Music)
CPE Bach, Haydn & Mozart (Linda Nicholson, clavichord)
Horne, Hesketh, Ewers and Arab composers (Ensemble 10/10)
Schubert, Mendelssohns, Fauré, Debussy etc (Bostridge, Daneman and Drake)
Vacarescu & Sandu
Bernstein, Ravel, Bridge and Britten (Orpheus Sinfonia/Collon)
Rossini, Rachmaninov and Sibelius (Steven Osborne; Orchestra of St Paul’s/Ben Palmer)
Vaughan Williams Mass (Tredici Choir)
February 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Philip Glass Satyagraha (ENO)
Mythic (Butô dance at Laban)
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor (ENO revival at The Coliseum)
Donizetti – L’elisir (ENO)
CONCERTS
Janáček & Suk (LPO/Jurowski)
Shostakovich The Nose Suite; 1st Symphony; The Gambler (LPO/Jurowski)
Electronic Music at City University (Mark Knoop, piano)
Beethoven & Brahms (Doric Quartet with Alasdair Beatson, piano)
Bartok & Schubert (Meta4 String Quartet)
Brahms Chamber Music (The Capuçon Brothers)
Mozart, Piazolla and Patrick Nunn
OUT HEAR: Invisibility (ELISION at King's Place)
George Benjamin at 50 (London Sinfonietta)
Bartok, Dvorak, Janacek & Musorgsky (Magdalena Kožená & András Schiff)
Debussy, Faure, Poulenc and Ravel (LPO/Nézet-Séguin at RFH)
Enescu, Ravel, Schubert & Schumann (Philippe Graffin & Claire Désert)
January 2010
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Puccini La Bohème (Opera Up Close)
Henze Phaedra (Ensemble Modern)
CONCERTS
From Vienna to Weimar (Aurora Orchestra & Artis-Quartett Wien)
Sibelius: The Wood Nymph, Humoresques & Symphony No.1
Sibelius Symphonies 3 & 2
Sibelius 6 & 7 and Tapiola (Vanska)
Barenboim conducts Schoenberg & Beethoven
Bach Weber Janácek Rachmaninov Bartok (Tanya Gabrielian - piano)
Alkan: Grande Sonate 'Les quatre ages' (Trinity College of Music, London)
Park Lane Group Young Artists (Purcell Room, London, January 2010)
Szymanowski & Shostakovich (Widmann & Jurowski)
Henze Weekend (The Barbican)
Handel, Martini & Vivaldi (Sara Mingardo & Accademia degli Astrusi)
Joyce DiDonato at Wigmore Hall
PLG Young Artists Week (1) - Purcell Room, SBC
Wagner, Stanford & Arnold (Shulah Oliver & Hitchin Symphony Orchestra)
Sporsén, Klouda, Middleton recital
Beethoven String Quartet Cycle (Auryn Quartet)
Contemporary Organ Music (Recitals in SE London by Michael Bonaventure)
Turku/Schnyder at Wigmore Hall
Mozart, Wolf, Zemlinsky etc (Daniela Lehner)
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