Category: Review
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Review – Opus13 play Mendelssohn, JanĂĄÄek, and at Cheltenham 2026
From a signature Mendelssohn to JanĂĄÄek’s fevered final quartet, Opus13 play like a group with little to prove and everything still to say.
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Review – Angela Hewitt at Cheltenham Festival 2026
A performer drawing her advocates close in to make the case for an escape to the country.
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Review – Gervase De Peyer: As I Knew Him (Katia de Peyer)
A touching memoir from Katia de Peyer about her life with the internationally renowned clarinettist
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Review – Carducci Quartet play Kurtag, Clarke, Reich and Debussy at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
The Carducci Quartet brought KurtĂĄg, Reich, Clarke and Debussy to the Britten Studio for a programme spanning a century of string quartet writing. Not everything landed. But the playing undoubtedly did.
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Review – Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Schubert at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
The idea of hearing any Schubert piano music on a modern piano now feels like a shameful act of betrayal after Bezuidenhoutâs Aldeburgh concert.
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Review – Schubert Quintet at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
We came for Schubert. What we got was something rarer.
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Review – Freya Waley-Cohenâs âThe Dreamerâ at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Generous, disciplined, written for exactly the player performing it â Aldeburghâs world premiere doesnât cower.
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Review – English Baroque Soloists ‘Haydn in London’ at St Martin in the Fields
Peter Whelan and the English Baroque Soloists at St Martin in the Fields: energy, jeopardy, and a second half worth waiting for.
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Review – Wigglesworth Piano Concerto at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Edgy enough to say something, conventional enough to hold attention. A gift for Osborne and an invigorating listen for the rest of us.
