Tim Ashley
LSO/Harding/Hardenberger - review
Barbican, London Daniel Harding , the conductor at the centre of the row over La Scala's decision to blacklist the opera critic of the Corriere della Sera , is currently in London for two concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra that place the musicTotal Immersion: Sounds from Japan - review
Barbican, London The BBC Symphony Orchestra 's latest Total Immersion day focused on postwar Japan, its complex cultural dialogue with Europe, and the re-examination of its own musical traditions that resulted. Toru Takemitsu , the country's best-kno
Philharmonia/Sokhiev - review
Royal Festival Hall, London Tugan Sokhiev 's latest Philharmonia concert marked the bicentenary of the founding of the Royal Philharmonic Society , set up to promote the best in musical performance and to support composers and musicians world-wide. T
Tetzlaff/Vogt - review
Wigmore Hall, London Long established as duet partners, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt turned to Brahms's three Violin Sonatas for their latest recital. We have long been familiar in the UK with their individual interpretations of
BBCSO/Yu - review
Barbican, London Raymond Yiu 's The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured, given its world premiere by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Long Yu , takes as one of its several points of departure George Orwell's description of the silenced bells "of a lostLPO/Jurowski - review
Royal Festival Hall, London The Rest is Noise , the Southbank Centre's festival of 20th-century music inspired by Alex Ross's book of the same name, opened with Strauss 's Nietzschean tone poem, Also Sprach Zarathustra - an appropriate starting point
