Category: Review
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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 Kurtág, 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 Bezuidenhout’s 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-Cohen’s ‘The Dreamer’ at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Generous, disciplined, written for exactly the player performing it — Aldeburgh’s world premiere doesn’t 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.
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Review – Sphinx Piano Quintet at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Spirit in the Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, and a communal moment of meditation in the Cassie Kinoshi
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Review – Pelleas et Melisande at Aldeburgh Festival 2026
Debussy’s score constructs an intense interior world and plants ideas in the mind of the listener. Rory Kinnear’s direction strips away distraction. Those ideas grow during and after performance.
