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Alessio Bax’s inaugural London Festival of Chamber Music
Alessio Bax's inaugural London Festival of Chamber Music sets off with a spring in its step.
Västerås Sinfonietta unleashes nature and embraces joy at Kings Place
An uplifting performance by the Swedish orchestra takes us on a journey from the Isle of Staffa to Bohemian forests via the Carpathian Mountains in the venue's Nature Unwrapped season.
Brahms Festival in South Pasadena ends with a lullaby
After the Sextet there they played a tender, bittersweet arrangement of Brahms' Lullaby created the day before that sent the audience home looking forward to Franz Schubert in 2020.
Brahms unleashed in South Pasadena
After tumbling deliriously to the end, if they had played one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances as an encore, they would have had them the audience dancing in the aisles.
Evgeny Kissin and the Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall
There was a palpable sense of communion during a performance bringing these great musicians together at Carnegie Hall for the first time.
Totally committed Finzi and inspired Shostakovich
Two works of personal victory, written at virtually the same point in history and against a backdrop of suffering, made up this very successful concert conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.