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LSO/Zhang – review

4763 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonAlexander Zemlinsky's only symphonic poem, The Mermaid (Die Seejungfrau), based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale about the water nymph who yearned to experience human love, is still a bit of a rarity. Zemlinsky withdrew the scor... more info

Joan of Arc at the Stake – review

4767 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonArthur Honegger's dramatic oratorio formed the opening gesture in what the London Symphony Orchestra called its Joan of Arc weekend, with Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, written as a score to Carl Dreyer's film The Passion of Jo... more info

Orchestras and bands join the fight for Yorkshire's amazing music and drama library

4771 days ago
Guardian MusicThursday is decision day in Wakefield for an organisation which has made the city famous among amateur musicians and theatre groups across the UKMusic makers across the north of England, and indeed more widely, are on tenterhooks as the countdown tic... more info

LSO/Järvi – review

4788 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican Hall, LondonThis concert in celebration of Steve Reich's birthday – the American composer turned 75 two weeks ago – began with the sound of clapping and ended with an ovation. Both were inevitable. Reich himself partnered Neil Percy in... more info

War Requiem – review

4793 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra and its chorus are about to visit New York to give three concerts at the Lincoln Centre. Large-scale choral music features prominently, with Colin Davis repeating the performance of Beethoven's Missa Sole... more info

In praise of … Claudio Abbado | Editorial

4794 days ago
Guardian MusicFew musicians have founded more orchestras and found time to be chief conductor of La Scala and the Berlin PhilharmonicFew orchestral concerts in years have had the classical music public's anticipatory juices running as strongly as those by Claudio ... more info

LSO/Davis/Uchida – review

4799 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonCarl Nielsen, the musical pride of Denmark, has never had a UK champion persuasive enough to lift his works – bar his Fourth and perhaps Fifth Symphonies – into the repertoire. Until now, that is: it's only a shame that Colin Dav... more info

MacMillan's St John Passion – review

4803 days ago
Guardian MusicCity Halls, GlasgowJames MacMillan's setting of the Passion was first heard in London more than three years ago, so this Scottish premiere was choreographed as a homecoming of sorts. It was the BBCSSO's season opener, with their chief conductor Donal... more info

LSO/Gergiev/Freire – review

4808 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonThis has been a heart-on-sleeve week for the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. They opened the season with a showcase for the winners of this year's Tchaikovsky competition; a few days later they were back with the same co... more info

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No1, CD review

4826 days ago
The TelegraphBruch: Violin Concerto No1; Ole Bull: Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso. Charlie Siem (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, cond Andrew Gourlay. more info

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