Classical
Beethoven: String Quartets op.18/3,18/5,135 - Hagen Quartett
In its 2012/13 season, the Hagen Quartett brings the complete Beethoven string quartets to the most prominent musical centers of the world, including New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Vienna and Salzburg. During the first half of this tour, the quartet went
Halle Orchestra & Nikolaj Znaider - Assembly Rooms, Derby
'Without exageration, I have put my whole soul into this work.' Within ten days of its premiere Tchaikovsky was dead, possibly by his own hand. From the Sixth Symphony's shattering outbursts and exultant climaxes to its lamenting finale and despairing end
Levin Plays Mozart - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Mozart in 1784 and Schubert in 1814/15 – great years for great composers. Mozart was at the height of his popularity in Vienna, writing a stream of new works to perform at his very own showcase concerts. Schubert found his voice in 1814/15 in masterpiec
Takacs Quartet & Ralph Kirshbaum Perform Beethoven & Schubert - Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, explore two towering masterworks of chamber music in their latest programme. They join forces with Ralph Kirshbaum for Schubert’s C major String Quintet, completed a few months before the composer
Ensemble 10/10: The Soldier's Tale - Epstein Theatre
Returning from war, a soldier meets a sinister stranger. He offers him a bargain: the soldier’s violin in return for a book of untold riches. It seems like an easy choice – but this, after all, is a world in which the devil really does have all the be
Classical review: BBC SSO: Britten and Dvorak, City Halls, Glasgow
A HUMBLE afternoon radio concert it may have been, but what a belter of a show the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra put on – driven, vivid and full of life.
Viva Italia! - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Symphony Hall
Roman holidays: when northern composers headed for Italy, it never took them long to go native. Felix Mendelssohn wrote a symphony that positively dances in the sunlight, and Tchaikovsky had barely left his hotel room before his head was fizzing with tune
Magdalena Kozena Live - The Barbican
Magdalena Kožená’s steady rise to fame turned meteoric a couple of years ago. By 2010, she was likened by The Times to Barack Obama: ‘Everyone wants a piece of her’ said the newspaper of the mezzo whose mellifluous, pliable voice is as enchanting
Concert review: RSNO - American Festival II, Glasgow
IN THE second of the RSNO’s American Festival concerts, the composers were well-known, but not all of the music.