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UK CONCERT REVIEW INDEX JANUARY -JUNE 2007
North Devon Festival
2007:
Dame
Kiri
te Kanawa
(sop) with
Julian Reynolds
(piano) Queen's
Theatre, Barnstaple,
29.6.2007 (BK)
Adès, Beethoven,
Brahms:
Alfred
Brendel (piano);
Philharmonia
Orchestra/Christoph
von Dohnányi. RFH,
28.6.2007 (CC)
Poulenc:
Carole Farley,
(soprano),
John Constable,
(piano). Painters
Hall, London
27.6.2007 (AO)
Caetani, Schubert,
Mendelssohn,
Boccadero, Solbiati,
Fazzari, Campogrande:
Roberto Prosseda
(piano). Wigmore
Hall,
25.6.2007 (CC)
Berlioz, Benvenuto
Cellini:
Soloists, London
Symphony Chorus,
London Symphony
Orchestra/Sir
Colin Davis,
Barbican, London
26.6.2007 (MB)
Wagner, Mozart,
Janáček:
Mitsuko
Uchida (piano);
Philharmonia
Orchestra/Sir
Charles Mackerras.
RFH 24.6. 2007 (CC)
Amaral, Boulez,
Berio:
London Sinfonietta,
Melinda Maxwell
(oboe), Paul
Archibald (trumpet),
Pedro Amaral
(conductor), Jerwood
Hall, St. Luke’s,
London, 23.6.2007
(AO)
Crystal tears:
Dowland and his
contemporaries’:
Andreas
Scholl
(countertenor),
Julian Behr (lute),
Concerto DiViole.
Wigmore Hall
23.6.2007 (ME)
Launch of The Enescu
Society:
Remus
Azoitei
(violin); Eduard
Stan (piano).
Romanian Cultural
Institute, London.
21.06.2007 (ED)
A Musical Tour Round
the British Isles '
:
Todmorden
Orchestra,
Nicholas
Concannon Hodges
(conductor) Town
Hall, Todmorden, UK
23 .6. 2007 (RB)
Exeter Summer
Festival, Magnificats and Misereres:
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
(conductor) Exeter Cathedral,
20.6.2007 (BK)
and
Värttina in Concert:
Corn Exchange Theatre, Exeter
21.6.2007
Aldeburgh Festival
(2):
Sciarrino, Fauré,
Bach, Liszt, Chopin,
Nono, Debussy:
Louis Lortie
(piano), The
Maltings, Snape,
Aldeburgh, England.
18.6.2007 (AO)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007
Main Prize Final:
BBC
National Orchestra
of Wales conducted
by Carlo Rizzi St
David’s Hall, 5.00pm
17.6.2006 (ED)
Schubert, Wolf,
Warlock, Debussy,
Duparc:
Christopher
Maltman (baritone)
Julius Drake (piano)
Wigmore Hall,
London. 16. 6. 2007
(ME)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2007 Rosenblatt
Recital Song Prize Final:
St. David’s Hall, 7.30pm 15.6.2007
(ED)
Turnage, About
Water (world
première):
Barb
Jungr (vocals),
Martin Robertson
(soprano saxophone),
Mark Lockheart
(tenor saxophone),
Gwilym Simcock
(piano), Gabriella
Swallow (cello),
John Patitucci
(double bass), Loré
Lixenberg
(mezzo-soprano),
Melanie Marshall
(mezzo-soprano),
Mike Henry (tenor),
Keel Watson (bass)
London Sinfonietta,
Stefan Asbury
(conductor), Queen
Elizabeth Hall,
London, 15.6.2007
(AO)
Haydn, Beethoven,
Schubert, Mozart:
Alfred
Brendel (piano).
Royal Festival Hall,
14. 6. 2007 (CC)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007
Main Prize Concert
5:
Orchestra
of WNO conducted
by Carlo Rizzi
7.30pm 14.6.2007,
St David’s Hall (ED)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007
Main Prize Concert
4:
BBC
National
Orchestra of Wales
conducted by Jacek
Kaspszyk, St David’s
Hall, 7.30pm 13.6.
2007 (ED)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007,
Song Prize Recital
4:
New
Theatre,
Cardiff 2.00pm
12.6.2007 (ED)
Mahler, Symphony
No 3, Knussen,
Violin Concerto:
Michelle
DeYoung
(mezzo-soprano),
Christian Tetzlaff
(violin), Esa-Pekka
Salonen (conductor),
Philharmonia
Orchestra, Ladies of
the Philharmonia
Voices. Choristers
of Westminster
Abbey, Choristers of
St. John’s College,
Cambridge, Royal
Festival Hall,
12.6.2007 (AO)
Chopin, Liszt:
Maurizio
Pollini (piano).
Barbican Hall,
London,
12.6.2007
(CC)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007
Main Prize Concert
3:
Orchestra
of WNO conducted
by Carlo Rizzi, St
David’s Hall,
7.30pm 12.6. 2007
(ED)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007
Main Prize Concert
2:
BBC
National
Orchestra of Wales /
Jacek Kaspszyk , St
David’s Hall, 7.30pm
11.6.2007 (ED)
BBC Cardiff
Singer of the World 2007, Song Prize
Recital 3:
New
Theatre, Cardiff 2.00pm
11.6.2007 (ED)
BBC Cardiff
Singer of the World 2007, Song Prize
Recital 2:
New Theatre, Cardiff 2.00pm
10.6.2007 (ED)
BBC Cardiff
Singer of the World
2007,
Main Prize Concert
1:
Orchestra
of Welsh National
Opera conducted by
Carlo Rizzi
St David’s Hall,
7.30pm, 10.6.2007
(ED)
BBC Cardiff Singer
of the World 2007,
Song Prize Recital
1:
9.6
2007 7.30pm, New
Theatre, Cardiff
(ED)
Beethoven:
Paul Lewis (piano).
Wigmore Hall, 9.6.
2007 (CC)
Hildegard of
Bingen, Ordo Virtutum:
Vox Animae,
Michael Fields (Director)
Members of the
Manchester Chamber Choir,
Bridgewater
Hall,
Manchester. 7.6. 2007 (RJF)
Bernstein on
Broadway:
Carla Huhtanen
(soprano); Sally
Burgess (mezzo);
Jamie MacDougall
(tenor) Orchestra of
Welsh National Opera
/ Carl Davis
(conductor),
Millennium Centre,
Cardiff, 06.06.07 (GPu)
Elgar 150th
Anniversary Weekend:
The Kingdom Op. 51
Soloists,
City of Birmingham
Symphony Chorus;
Members of the City
of Birmingham Choir;
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sakari
Oramo. Symphony
Hall, Birmingham 3.6
2007 (JQ)
Elgar 150th
Anniversary Weekend:
The Apostles Op. 49
Soloists, City
of Birmingham
Symphony Chorus;
Members of the City
of Birmingham Choir;
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sakari
Oramo. Symphony
Hall, Birmingham 2.6
2007 (JQ)
Mozart and
Prokofiev:
Lise de
la Salle (piano)
Wigmore Hall,
London. 3.6.2007
(ED)
Holliger, Beethoven,
Strauss:
Andreas
Haefliger
(piano) / BBC
National orchestra
of Wales / Thierry
Fischer (conductor),
St. David’s Hall,
Cardiff, 1.6.2007 (GPu)
Glazunov, Chopin,
Dvořák:
Maria
João Pires
(piano);
Philharmonia
Orchestra/Vladimir
Ashkenazy. QEH,
London, 31. 05.2007
(CC)
Schumann and Brahms:
Thomas
Quasthoff
(bass-baritone),
Justus Zeyen
(piano). Wigmore
Hall, London,
25.5.2007. (ME)
Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky and
Schumann:
Tamsin
Waley-Cohen (violin)
/ Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra / José
Serebrier
(conductor). Cadogan
Hall, London.
22.5.2007 (ED)
J.S. Bach,
Weimar Cantatas:
The
Purcell Quartet:
Emma Kirkby
(soprano) Michael
Chance
(countertenor) Peter
Harvey (bass)
Wigmore Hall,
London, 20
.5 2007.
(ME)
Mozart, Bruckner:
Piotr Anderszewski
(piano),London
Symphony Orchestra,
Myung-Whun Chung
(conductor).
Barbican Hall,
24.5.2007 (AVE)
Schumann, Debussy,
Ligeti, Chopin,
Rachmaninov, Messian
:
Pierre-Laurent
Aimard (piano)
Barbican Hall, 22.5.
2007 (CC)
Ligeti, Reich:
Martyn Brabbins
(conductor),
John Constable
(piano), Shelagh
Sutherland (piano),
Barbara Hannigan
(soprano) Mary King
(mezzo-soprano),
Omar Ebrahim
(baritone), London
Sinfonietta, Royal
Festival Hall,
London 19.5.2007
(AO)
Elgar:
James Ehnes
(violin),
Philharmonia
Orchestra, Sir
Andrew Davis
(conductor), St.
David’s Hall,
Cardiff, 18.05.2007
(GPu)
Dvořák:
Steven Isserlis
(cello);
Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment/Sir
Simon Rattle.
Barbican Hall, 15.5.
2007 (CC)
Stravinsky, Debussy,
Prokoviev:
London Symphony
Orchestra (Ladies of
the London Symphony
Chorus) Valery
Gergiev (conductor)
14.5. 2007, Barbican
Hall London (GD)
Prokofiev, Debussy,
Stravinsky:
Valery
Gergiev
(conductor), London
Symphony Orchestra,
Zlata Bulycheva
(Mezzo-soprano),
Oleg Balashov
(tenor), Yevgeny
Nitkin (bass), Fedor
Kuznetzov (bass),
Alexander Timchenko
(tenor), Simon
Callow (narrator),
LSO Chorus, Barbican
Hall, London
13.05.2007 (AO)
Janácek, Mozart,
Tartini, Ysaÿe and
Beethoven:
Hilary
Hahn (violin)
and Valentina
Lisitsa (piano).
Wigmore Hall,
London. 12.5.2007
(ED)
Elgar,
The Dream of
Gerontius:
Jean
Rigby (Mezzo);
Mark Tucker
(tenor); Matthew
Best (baritone); BBC
National Chorus of
Wales; BBC National
Orchestra of Wales /
Richard Hickox
12.5.2007 (GPu)
Britten, Anderson,
Walton:
Sarah
Connolly
(mezzo-soprano),
Edward Gardner
(conductor) BBC
Symphony Orchestra,
Barbican Hall,
London 12.05.2007
(AO)
Schumann, Schubert and Rachmaninov:
Tanya Gabrielian (piano). Wigmore
Hall, London. 11.05.07. (ED)
Janáček, Bruch, Dvořák:
Chloë Hanslip (violin) / Czech
National Symphony Orchestra / Libor
Pešek (conductor), St. David’s Hall,
Cardiff, 10.05.2007 (GPu)
Beethoven, Mozart
and Mendelssohn:
Viktoria
Mullova (violin)
Philharmonia
Orchestra, Sir
Charles Mackerras
(conductor), Queen
Elizabeth Hall, 10.5
2007 (GD)
70th
birthday recital by
Grace Bumbry
(mezzo)
/ Alexander
Schmalcz (piano).
Wigmore Hall,
London. 9.05.07 (ED)
Daniel Harding - A
Portrait, Rihm,
Mahler:
London Symphony
Orchestra, Daniel
Harding (conductor)
Barbican Hall,
London 9.05.2007 (JPr)
Angela Gheorghiu in concert
with London Symphony Orchestra / Ion
Marin (conductor).
Barbican Hall,
London. 8.05.2007. (ED)
Angela Gheorghiu in
Concert:
Orchestra
of Welsh
National Opera, Ion
Marin (conductor)
Symphony Hall,
Birmingham 1.05.2007
(MS)
Wagner, Mozart,
Dubrovay and Bruckner:
London Schools Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Erdi (piano), Tamás Vásáry
(conductor) Barbican Hall, London
30.4.2007 (JPr)
Bainbridge,
Berio and Meredith:
Nicole Tibbles
(soprano), Sarah Eyden (soprano),
Heather Cairncross (mezzo-soprano),
Omar Ebrahim (narrator), Sounds
Intermedia, Voicelab Pulse, conducted
by Mary King, Diego Masson (conductor)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor of flak),
London Sinfonietta, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London, 30.04.2007 (AO)
Weber,
Brahms, Tchaikovsky:
Nikolai
Lugansky
(piano); Philharmonia
Orchestra/Alexander
Lazarev. QEH, Thursday,
26.04.2007 (CC)
Borodin,
Khatchaturian
and Brahms:
Bournemouth
Symphony
Orchestra,
cond.
Tugan
Sokhiev,
soloist
Vadim
Gluzman
– violin
, Portsmouth
Guildhall,
20.04.2007
(JW)
Schoenberg,
Stravinsky,
Beethoven:
Marc-Andre
Hamelin
(piano),
London
Philharmonic
Orchestra,
Ingo Metzmacher
(conductor)
Queen
Elizabeth
Hall London.
20.04.
2007 (GD)
Elgar:
Truls Mork (cello)
Philharmonia
Orchestra,
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
19.4.2007 QEH (AVE)
Medtner,
Schumann,
Ravel and Ginastera:
Mihaela
Ursuleasa (piano). Queen
Elizabeth Hall, London. 18.04.2007.
(ED)
Beethoven,
Adès, Mahler:
Scharoun
Ensemble
Brahms,
Britten, Dvořák:
Anthony
Marwood
(violin);
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Marin
Alsop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London,
15.04.2007 (CC)
Britten,
Beethoven, Vaughan Williams:
Melvyn
Tan
(piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Vernon Handley (conductor): QEH
14.04. 2007 (AVE)
Berlioz,
Sibelius, Ives, Stravinsky, Adès:
Rebecca
von
Lipinski (soprano), Susan Bickley
(Mezzo-soprano), BBC Singers,
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican
Hall, London, 13.04.2007 (AO)
Mozart,
Schubert, Kilpinen, Britten and
Sibelius:
Soile
Isokoski (soprano) and Marita
Viitasalo (piano). Wigmore Hall,
London. 11.04.07 (ED)
Bach, St. John Passion: Collegium Vocale Gent. Phillipe Herreweghe (conductor). Christoph Prégardien (tenor/Evangelist), Konrad Jarnot (bass/Christus), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Ingeborg Danz (alto), Jan Kobow (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone/ Pilate), replacing the indisposed Peter Kooij. Barbican Hall, 5.04.07 (GD)
Mahler, Symphony No 3: Jane
Irwin (mezzo-soprano), BBC
Symphony Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Cathedral
Choir, Jiří Bělohávek (conductor), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Barbican Hall, 4.04.2007 (AO)
Britten,
Kurtàg, Liszt, Wagner, Schumann: Ian
Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Adės (piano), Jerwood
Hall, St Lukes, London 3.04.2007 (AO)
Britten,
War Requiem:
Orchestra
of Opera North, Northern Sinfonia, Huddersfield Choral
Society, Trinity Boys Choir, Janice Watson Soprano,
Paul Nilon Tenor, Grant Doyle Baritone, Takuo Yuasa
Conductor. The Sage, Newcastle/Gateshead, UK,
31.03.2007 (JL)
Schoenberg, Ravel: Christine
Schäfer
(soprano), Ailish
Tynan (soprano), Ulysses Ensemble, (Emily Beynon,
flute : Matthew Hunt, Clarinet: Ulrika-Anima Mathé,
violin : Alasdair Tait, cello : Noam Greenberg, piano)
Wigmore Hall, London 31.03.2007 (AO)
Elgar
and Shostakovich:
Southampton
Concert Orchestra/Paul Ingram (conductor), Shelley
Payne (cello) Thornden Hall, Chandlers Ford, Southampton
31.03.2007 (PCW)
Schubert:
Philharmonia
Orchestra
/ Andras Schiff (conductor, piano), St. David’s Hall,
Cardiff, 31.03.07 (GPu)
Turnage,
Payne, Carter and Matthews: London
Sinfonietta, Jane Irwin
(mezzo soprano), Oliver Knussen (conductor), Queen
Elizabeth Hall, London 30. 3.2007 (AO)
Schubert:
Andras Schiff
(conductor and piano soloist) Philharmonia Orchestra,
29.03.2007, Queen Elizabeth Hall London (GD)
Stravinsky,
Debussy and Prokofiev:
London Symphony
Orchestra, Avgust Amonov, (tenor), Valery Gergiev
(conductor), Barbican Hall, London 29.03.2007 (AO)
Petr
Eben, Brahms and Dvořák: Cédric
Tiberghien (piano) / BBC Symphony
Orchestra / Jiří Bĕlohlávek (conductor).
Barbican Hall, London. 26.03.2007 (ED)
Dvořák
and Berg:
Frank Peter
Zimmermann (violin) London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel
Harding (conductor) Barbican Hall, 26. 3.2007
(TJ-H)
Mozart, Brahms, Janáček, Liszt:
Libor Novacek
(piano) Wigmore
Hall, Monday 26.3 2007 (CC)
Haydn,
The Creation:
Soloists,
St. George's Singers, Neil
Taylor (conductor) Royal
Northern College of Music , Manchester 24.03.2007 (RJW)
Schubert,
Wolf, Brahms and Schumann, Lieder:
Florian
Boesch (baritone), Malcolm
Martineau (piano) Wigmore Hall, London. 22.03.2007
(ED)
Rameau,
Mahler: London
Symphony Orchestra, Daniel
Harding (conductor), Barbican Hall, London 22.03.2007
(AO)
Mendelssohn, Britten, Mozart and Beethoven:
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,
cond. Vassily Sinaisky, David Pyatt – Horn, Mark Padmore
– Tenor, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford,
16 .03.2007(JW)
Weber,
Mendelssohn, Saint Säens:
Tasmin
Little
(violin),
Hallé orchestra/Louis Langrée (conductor) Bridgewater
Hall, Manchester, 15.03.2007 (RJW)
Mozart, Wagner, Rossini, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Glinka:
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Jiří Bĕlohlávek,
Barbican Hall, London, 16.03. 2007 (ME)
Stravinsky,
Bartók, Tchaikovsky:
Piotr Anderszewski (piano);
Philharmonia Orchestra/Tugan Sokhiev. QEH, 15.03.
2007 (CC)
Ligeti,
Knussen, Goehr:
Pierre-Laurent
Aimard, (piano), Claire Booth
(soprano), London Sinfonietta. George Benjamin (conductor)
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 13.03.2007 (AO)
'East
Meets West', Hee-Jo Kim, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky: Mi-Sun
Gwon
(sanjo gayageum), Marialena Fernandes (piano), Thames
Philharmonia, Byung-Yun Yu (conductor) St John’s,
Smith Square, 11.03.2007 (JPr)
Tchaikovsky,
Bizet:
Barry
Douglas (piano), Hallé orchestra/Cristian Mandeal
(conductor) Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 8.03.2007
(RJW)
Mozart, Tchaikovsky, MacMillan:
London
Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor), Mitsuko
Uchida, (piano) 6.03 2007. Barbican Hall, London
(GD)
Schubert,
Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin:
Evgeny
Kissin (piano) Barbican
Hall, 5.03. 2007 (CC)
Bach,
Goldberg Variations:
Olli Mustonen (piano).
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 01.03.2007 (ED)
Haydn,
Shostakovich, Dvořák:
Škampa Quartet, Wigmore
Hall, London, 1.03. 2007 (CC)
Mozart,
Schubert: Werner
Güra (tenor), Christoph Berner (piano) Wigmore Hall,
London 28.02.2007 (AO)
Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Frescobaldi, Marini, Castello: David
Daniels, Le Point du Jour; Barbican
Hall, 27.02. 2007 (SL)
Benedict
Mason, ChaplinOperas:
Hilary
Summers (mezzo soprano), Omar
Ebrahim (baritone), Frank Ollu (conductor), London
Sinfonietta, The Anvil, Basingstoke, England
27.02.2007 (AO)
Mahler,
Symphony No 2 in C minor :
Karen
Cargill (mezzo soprano), Sally Matthews (soprano),
London Symphony Choir, London Symphony Orchestra,
Michael Tilson-Thomas (conductor) Barbican Hall, London
25.02.2007(AO)
Fire Burning in Snow:
Baroque
Music from
Latin
America III
Music
by Juan de Araujo and others. Ex Cathedra Consort;
Ex Cathedra Baroque Ensemble; QuintEssential Sackbut
& Cornett Ensemble; Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor).
The Oratory, Birmingham, 24. 02. 2007 (JQ)
Brahms,
Sibelius :
Nicholas Angelich (piano), London
Philharmonic Orchestra / Kazushi Ono (conductor),
St. David’s Hall, Cardiff,
24.02.07 (GPu)
Strauss,
Mozart, Schubert (arr. Mahler): International
Mahler
Orchestra, Yoel Gamzou
(conductor) St. John’s, Smith Square 22.02.2007 (JPr)
Beethoven,
Mozart, Dvorak: London
Symphony Orchestra; Sir Colin
Davis, Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Barbican Hall, London,
22.02.2007 (GD)
The
Rosenblatt Recital Series: Nicole Cabell
(soprano),
Simon Lepper
(piano) and
Gemma Rosefield (cello).
St John’s, Smith Square. London. 21.02.07 (ED
Schubert Lieder: Matthias
Goerne, Ingo Metzmacher,
Wigmore Hall. 20.02. 2007 (ME)
Janáček, Beethoven, Chausson, Ravel:
Vadim
Repin (violin); Itamar
Golan (piano)
QEH, 18.02.
2007 (CC
Schubert, Bruckner: Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Mariss Jansons (conductor) 10.02.2007 (JPr)
Barber,
Macmillan, Beethoven: Colin
Currie (percussion), Marin
Alsop (conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 10.02.2007 (AO)
Bainbridge,
Bartók, Skryabin: Barry
Douglas (piano), David Robertson (conductor), BBC
Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Hall, London, 9.02.2007
(AO)
Mahler,Symphony
no. 6 : The
Salomon Orchestra, Robin
O’Neill (conductor), St John’s, Smith Square,
London 06.02.2007 (JPr)
Schoenberg, Schumann and Brahms:
Philharmonia
Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnanyi (conductor) Lars
Vogt (piano) Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
04.02. 2007 (GD)
Rautavaara, Bach, H K Gruber, Schubert: Pekka
Kuusisto (violin), Britten Sinfonia, Queen Elizabeth
Hall, London, 01.02.2007 (AO)
Schubert
Birthday Celebration:
Schubert,
Berger,
Kreutzer, Hüttenbruner, Bürde, Loewe, Randhartiger,
Lachner, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Schumann,
Rossini Claire Booth (soprano), Ann Murray
(mezzo soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Roderick Williams
(baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Wigmore Hall,
London, 31.01.2007 (AO)
Kirklees
Orchestral Concerts:
Sibelius
Finlandia,
Violin Concerto; Elgar: Symphony
No. 1. Orchestra of Opera North, Valerij Sokolov (violin),
Richard Farnes (conductor), Huddersfield Town Hall,
Wednesday 31.01.2007 (PSe)
Glinka,
Mendelssohn and Schumann:
The
Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment, Christian Tetzlaff (vln)
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Symphony Hall, Birmingham,
27.01.2007 (BK)
The Book of Madrigals: Leipzig,
town of Music
and
In lighter mood: amarcord, Wigmore
Hall, London. 26.01.07. (ED)
Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Poulenc and Duruflé:
Frances Bourne (mezzo
soprano); Eamonn Dougan (baritone); Andrew Skidmore
(cello); Alexander Mason (organ); Ex Cathedra conducted
by Jeffrey Skidmore. Worcester Cathedral 27.01. 2007
(JQ)
Liszt
and Wagner:
Thomas
Hitzlberger (piano) St John’s,
Smith Square, 25.01. 2007 (JPr)
Brahms,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Strauss, Poulenc, Debussy,
Ravel:
Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Julius Drake (piano),
Wigmore Hall, London, 23.1.2007 (AO)
Francesconi,
Kurtág, Ferneyhough, Dusapin: The
Arditti Quartet, Irvine Arditti (violin), Ashot Sarkissian
(violin), Ralf Ehlers (viola), Lucas Fels (cello)
Wigmore Hall, London, 23.01.2007 (AO)
Liszt,
Tchaikovsky, Chopin: Elisabeth
Leonskaya
(piano). Queen
Elizabeth Hall, 23.01.2007 (CC)
Stravinsky,
Prokofiev:
London
Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor), Alexander
Toradze (piano). Gentlemen of the London Symphony
Chorus. Barbican Hall, London. 23. 01.2007 (GD)
Schoenberg, Brahms:
Orchestra
of Welsh National Opera / Lothar
Koenigs (conductor), St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, 20.01.07
(GPu)
Elgar,
Warlock, Bliss and Vaughan Williams:
The
Nash Ensemble; John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Wigmore Hall,
20.01.2007 (ME)
Beethoven:
Paul Lewis
(piano)
Wigmore
Hall 18.01. 2007 (CC)
Martinů, Dvořák:
Florestan
Trio.
Wigmore
Hall, London 14.01. 2007 (CC)
‘A
Journey of the Soul’, The music of Sofia Gubaidulina:
‘Nadeyka Triptych’,The Lyre of Orpheus’, ‘The deceitful
Face of Hope and Despair’ ‘A Feast During the
Plague’. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica,
Sharon Bezaly (flute/alto flute/bass flute), Gidon
Kremer (violin), Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 12.01.2007
and
‘Fairytale Poem’, Johann
Sebastian Bach,
‘Sarabande
from Partita in D minor, BWV 1004’, ‘Offertorium’,
‘Pro et Contra’,
London Symphony Orchestra, Michail Jurowski/ Michael
Francis (conductors), Leonidas Kavakos (violin). Barbican
Hall, London 13.01.2007 (GD)
Mahler, Symphony No. 9 :Staatskapelle
Dresden, Daniel Harding
(conductor) Barbican Hall, London 10.01. 2007
(GD)
Hugo Wolf, Italienisches Liederbuch Olaf Bär
(baritone) Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Helmut Deutsch (piano) Wigmore Hall 06.01.2007 (ME)