Tag: Beethoven
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Review – Edinburgh International Festival: London Symphony Orchestra play Korngold’s Violin Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony
Vilde Frang’s Korngold shone with unbroken lyricism and cinematic colour; Vaughan Williams’ vast Sea Symphony impresses in scale and execution, even if its emotional heart remains elusive.
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Review – Edinburgh International Festival: London Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven 5 and Shostakovich 10
Where Beethoven’s Fifth brought moments of elegance and balance, some fortissimos felt too big and lacked clarity. Shostakovich’s Tenth was the evening’s triumph — precision, drama, and vividly drawn storytelling, including searing brass and velvety-padded strings.
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Review – BBC Proms 2025: Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Alexandre Kantorow – Friday 25 July 2025
A Scottish Chamber Orchestra Prom of Rameau, Saint-Saëns and Beethoven revealed an emerging broadcast-led strategy in this year’s season: programming designed to be safe rather than startling. But Maxim Emelyanychev’s gritty, defiant Beethoven 5 proved a reminder of why this work is not just enjoyed, but needed.
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First Listen to Unfamiliar Music: Beethoven ‘s Piano Trio Op. 1 No.1
A first encounter with Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op.1 No.1 at London’s newest recital hall, the Bechstein Hall in London’s Wigmore Street.
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Beethoven 6 from Oliver Zeffman and Academy of St Martin in the Fields
A joyous celebration packed full of detail.
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Aurora Orchestra play Beethoven 5 at Printworks
It’s my second time to Printworks. I’m here to see Aurora Orchestra’s Beethoven 5 theatrical ‘set piece’. I don’t necessarily feel like the target audience for this but I want to experience different formats – a useful way of seeing how the product is being packaged up for different audiences. Everything about that format is…
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Community and connection at a Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concert
Human connection in a performance by a musician embarking on her career.
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London Mozart Players, Leia Zhu, Leslie Suganandarajah and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at QEH
Zhu is a phenomenal talent. She is reassuringly self-assured. The complete package.
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My new pal: Beethoven’s violin concerto
Meet my new pal: Beethoven’s violin concerto. I was originally a little unsure of it when I first came across it. It wasn’t Tchaikovsky. Or Mendelssohn. Or Brahms. It seemed heavier, laden with I don’t know what. Much deference seemed to be paid to it. And it was long. Very long. Something has changed in…
