Tag: Beethoven
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Review – Beethoven’s Mass in C at Three Choirs 2026
Let’s not split hairs over a wobbly fugue, this was jaw-dropping stuff from Sam Hudson, the Philharmonia and the Three Choirs Festival Chorus
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Review – BBC Proms 2026: Swedish Chamber Orchestra – Beethoven and Baroque
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Martin Fröst was immense fun. Invigorating. Different. Rewarding. It would have made brilliant TV (and presumably would have been cheaper than the LA Phil). It seems unfathomable it wasn’t recorded for broadcast.
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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.