Category: Review
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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.
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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
Debussyâs score constructs an intense interior world and plants ideas in the mind of the listener. Rory Kinnearâs direction strips away distraction. Those ideas grow during and after performance.
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Mrs T in Preview at Kingâs Place
Opera helps us take some of the political heat out of itâ â Dominic Sandbrook, reflecting on his first libretto, accidentally hands the audience the challenge with Mrs T.
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Review – Manchester Camerata with ‘8 Songs For A Mad King’
Mental disintegration demands energy which this event didn’t always have. But when it counted – as in Peter Maxwell-Davies 8 Songs For A Mad King – the effect was brutal, and the questions potent.
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Preview â BBC Proms 2026: Korngold’s Violin Concerto
Alena Baeva plays Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Delyana Lazarova â alongside Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony.
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Review – Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu at Bergen International Festival 2026
Together, Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu slow down time. Everyone holds their breath.