REVIEWS OF LIVE EVENTS - 2007
DECEMBER 2007
Two faces of Wigmore Hall (Hampson & PLG Monday platform)
Mozart, Schubert & Tchaikovsky (Aleksandar Madzar piano)
Strauss & Mahler Lieder; Berlioz Les nuits d’été (Anne Schwanewilms)
Barbican Piano Trio 20th Anniversary
Buxtehude & his contemporaries (clavichord recital)
Grieg Anniversary Concert
NOVEMBER 2007
CONCERTS
Lute Society recitals (Maginley, Curtis, Sweeney etc)
Beaux Arts Trio Farewell
William Lyne 75th Birthday Celebration
Greenwich Early Music Festival Concerts (9 -11 November)
Asasello Quartet & Jill Crossland (Haydn Jarrell Kurtág Brahms)
Foulds A World Requiem
Gabriella Dall'Olio & Anna Noakes at Sutton House
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Virtual Zauberflote (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
h2 dance's To die for (Laban)
Maconchy – The sofa and The departure (Sadlers Wells Lilian Baylis Theatre)
Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Academy Opera)
Tom Dale's RISE (Laban)
OCTOBER 2007
CONCERTS
Jennifer McGregor (soprano) with Jacqueline Cole (Hinde Street Methodist Church, London)
"Four Hands" (Blackheath Sundays)
Sara-Jane Bradley (Conway Hall)
Nono etc – Fragments of Venice (Concert 1 London Sinfonietta)
Maconchy and Lefanu (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie at Laban
Monteverdi Poppea (ENO)
Puccini – La Boheme (Mid Wales Opera)
AUGUST /SEPTEMBER 2007
CONCERTS
Mondrian Ensemble Basel (Wigmore Hall debut)
Bmic@40 (The Cutting Edge 2007)
Yarde, Semmens, Lane, Howard, Piper, Brooke, Sammoutis (LSO/Roth)
Kreutzer Quartet at St Bartholomew-the Great
Dutch Orchestral Music (Cadogan Hall)
Dong Jun Wang (baritone) James Baillieu (piano)
Afternoon Proms
Sequentia
Rachel Portman – The Water Diviner’s Tale
Venezuela
Youth Orchestra at the Proms (seen on TV)
English Music (English Concert at the Proms)
Hallé Orchestra at the Proms
ASMF / Pike at Barbican 'Mostly Mozart'
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Britten Albert Herring in London and Zurich
Gluck Iphigenie en Tauride (Royal Opera House)
Benda Romeo & Juliet
Tête à Tête Opera Festival 16 August
Drive Ride Walk (Riverside)
JULY 2007
Brass Day (The Proms)
Berio & Rossini at The Proms
Swedish Chamber Orchestra and The Barbirolli Quartet
Haydn The Seasons (Handel and Haydn Society of Boston/Norrington)
Accentus Chamber Choir, Psophos Quartet & Alexei Ogrintchouk (City of London Festival 2007)
Britten London City Recitals (Charlotte Forrest and singers)
Hayden, Bernstein and Ives (Proms 5)
Malcolm Binns at Wigmore Hall
Clara Mouriz & Joseph Middleton (Wigmore Hall recital)
British Songs Lunchtime Prom (Alice Coote)
Mendelssohn, Korngold, Stravinsky, Bridge, Shostakovich (Proms Matinee 1) OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Verdi La Traviata (Opera Holland Park)
Verdi Macbeth (Glyndebourne at The Proms - semi-staged)
Mozart The Magic Flute (Armonico Consort Opera)
Mozart – Cosi fan tutte (ROH)
Royal Opera House Young Artists Summer Concert
Osborne Differences in Demolitions (City of London Festival at Wilton's Music Hall)
Poulenc Les dialogues des Carmelites (Trinity College of Music)
Delibes Lakmé (Opera Holland Park)
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia (Opera Holland Park)
JUNE 2007
CONCERTS
Wihan Quartet at Wigmore Hall & on DVD
Bizet La jolie Fille de Perth (Chelsea Opera Group)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (21st Birthday Concert)
Camac Harp Days (Trinity College Harp Festival)
Gabriella Dall'Olio & Anna Noakes
Alwyn Brahms & Elgar (Tippett Quartet)
Ades Asyla, Beethoven (Concerto No.3) & Brahms No.2 (Philharmonia)
Varese and Stravinsky/Obermaier (LPO)
Karina Lucas (mezzo) with Simon Lane, piano
Handel Opera Matinée (Linden Baroque Orchestra)
Xenakis, Osborne & Schnittke (Spitalfields Festival)
Anne Sofie von Otter (Wigmore Hall)
Bach Howells MacMillan (Vasari Singers)
Mahler & Knussen (Royal Festival Hall)
Anna Noakes & Gabriella Dall'Olio (Music for flute & harp)
Sara Mingardo (contralto) with Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
Bartok series - 1 (Schiff & Takacs Quartet)
Gregory Sokolov
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Sondheim Into the Woods
Janacek Kát'a Kabanová (Royal Opera House)
Janacek Jenufa (Opera Holland Park)
Richard Alston Dance Company & SPNM
Strauss Capriccio (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)
MAY 2007
CONCERTS
Schumann; Prokofiev; Rachmaninov (Thomas Carroll & Anthony Hewitt)
Schumann & Brahms/Thomas Quasthoff & Justus Zeyen
Naxos Showcase (Wigmore Hall)
Tom Kerstens – Guitar recital
Schmelzer, Biber, Muffat etc (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment)
Handel – Amadigi di Gaula
Petra Lang at Wigmore Hall
Kungsbacka Piano Trio at Blackheath Halls
Dvorák , Shostakovich and Brahms (Takács & Hough)
Ligeti and Reich (London Sinfonietta)
Handel Solomon ( Lufthansa Baroque Festival )
Richard Goode (Brahms, Fauré and Debussy)
Tanya Gabrielian (Wigmore Hall recital and masterclasses)
Gerald Barry in focus (London Sinfonietta at LSO St Luke's)
Dussek & Mozart (Malcolm Bilson fortepiano)
David Horne Portrait Concert
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Britten's Death in Venice at ENO and on DVD
Beethoven Fidelio (ROH, Mattila & Wottrich)
Pond Way, Gran Partita, Anatomica #3 (Rambert at Sadler's Wells)
Britten: ‘ The Rape of Lucretia ' (Royal Academy Opera)
Transitions Dance Company 2007 at Laban
Handel/Mozart – Acis and Galatea (Bampton Classical Opera)
The National Opera Studio Showcase (Hackney Empire)
Verdi Stiffelio (Royal Opera)
APRIL 2007
CONCERTS
Beethoven cycle - (Kovacevich: concert 2)
Murray Perahia (Barbican Hall)
Soile Isokoski at Wigmore Hall
Evis Sammoutis Portrait Concert
The Galliard Ensemble (Wind Quintets)
Adela Maddison (Fibonacci Sequence)
Bach St Matthew Passion (Barbican, Easter Sunday)
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Handel Giulio Cesare (Barbican)
Philip Glass Satyagraha (ENO)
MARCH 2007
CONCERTS
20th- & 21st-C clavichord music (Paul Simmonds, Julian Perkins & Micaela Schmitz)
Carter, C Matthews, Payne & Turnage (London Sinfonietta/Knussen)
Ades & Nancarrow
Florian Boesch (Wigmore Hall)
Evis Sammoutis at Hellenic Centre and Wapping
Monteverdi etc (Le Jardin des voix)
Beethoven (Emerson Quartet)
Beethoven & Kovacevich (Cadogan Hall)
Ligeti, Knussen & Goehr (London Sinfonietta at QEH)
Diana Burrell & Aurora Orchestra (Royal Academy of Music)
Mendelssohn & Saint-Saens (Wanderer Piano Trio)
Adés, Birtwistle, Holt, Horne and David Matthews (Wigmore Hall)
Kissin at The Barbican
Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Handel Ariodante (Barbican)
Henri Oguike Dance Company (QEH, 2007)
Iolanta & Gianni Schicchi (RAM)
Handel Orlando (Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
Protein Dance Big Sale
Puccini – La boheme (ENO, 2nd cast)
Mozart Figaro at GSMD, London and Birmingham Conservatoire
FEBRUARY 2007
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
Dusapin Niobe
Augustine (Darkin Ensemble at Laban)
Handel – Agrippina (ENO)
Mozart – Cosi fan tutte (The Minotaur Music Theatre)
CONCERTS
Debussy, Katan, Runswick, Rzewski etc (Trinity College of Music)
Goldner String Quartet
Schubert – Goerne/Metzmacher
Hamelin & Karpeyev (two piano recitals)
Schubert – Winterreise (John Tomlinson)
Ysaÿe Quartet & Arman Trio (Wigmore Hall & Blackheath Halls)
Saint Saens, Poulenc, Massenet & Duruflé (Ex Cathedra)
JANUARY 2007
OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc
La Fille du Regiment (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
The Pirates of Penzance (G&S/arr Chris Monks)
Wagner Society Celebration
CONCERTS
Schubert 210th Birthday Concert
Wu Qian at Blackheath
Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Isserlis & Levin)
electronics in performance (Trinity College of Music)
Dusapin, Francesconi, Ferneyhough,and Kurtág (Arditti Quartet at Wigmore Hall)
Marshall, Gregson, Holliger Pneuma & Stockhausen Trans (Blackheath Halls)
Raymond Keenlyside recital
Schubert/Janacek (Toby Spence)
Sofia Gubaidulina Weekend
Park Lane Group Young Artists (2)
More about PLGYA 2007 (Mark Dennis)
Martinu & Dvorak (Florestan Trio)
Bach, Mozart and Schumann (Jill Crossland)
Mahler Symphony No 9 (Staatskapelle Dresden/Daniel Harding)
Adès, Carter, Copland and Ligeti (PLG Young Artists 2007)
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