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Dancing down south: Domingo Hindoyan and the RLPO at the Barbican

By Charlotte Gardner, 19 May 2025

Hindoyan, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Pablo Ferrández prompt musings on life, death, dance and the pursuit of beauty in London’s Barbican.

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London

21 May 2025

Dancing down south: Hindoyan and the RLPO at the Barbican

By Charlotte Gardner

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Sheffield

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic: spiritually fulfilling in Beethoven's Pastoral

By Phil Parker, 10 April 2025

That a Turkish orchestra excels in Turkish music is no surprise... but in mainstream Western repertoire too? BIPO and Carlo Tenan charm Sheffield with their fresh take on the classics.

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Sheffield

11 Apr 2025

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic: spiritually fulfilling Beethoven

By Phil Parker

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Dublin

Jaime Martín and the NSO deliver a bold, exciting Shostakovich 10 in Dublin

By Andrew Larkin, 12 April 2024

Pablo Ferrández charms in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations while conductor Jaime Martín offers a compelling, rhythmically driven version of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.

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Dublin

14 Apr 2024

Martín and the NSO deliver a bold, exciting Shostakovich 10 in Dublin

By Andrew Larkin

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London

Brahms 4 off the Richter scale from Karina Canellakis and the LPO

By Mark Thomas, 21 February 2024

Canellakis and the LPO are in fighting form with Brahms’ Fourth Symphony, while Pablo Ferrández provides subtlety and sardonic bite in Shostakovich.

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London

22 Feb 2024

Brahms 4 off the Richter scale from Karina Canellakis and the LPO

By Mark Thomas

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New York City

Teatro Real brings a taste of Spain to New York

By David Wolfson, 16 October 2023

Juanjo Mena and the orchestra of Spain’s powerhouse opera company presents a gala concert, featuring Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo at its centre.

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New York City

17 Oct 2023

Teatro Real brings a taste of Spain to New York

By David Wolfson

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Prague

A proficient but flawed opening at Dvořák’s Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 08 September 2022

Myung-whun Chung and Pablo Ferrández shine separately, but never quite get on the same page.

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Prague

11 Sep 2022

A proficient but flawed opening at Dvořák’s Prague

By Frank Kuznik

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London

Petrenko and the RPO at full power in Britten, Shostakovich and Walton

By Mark Valencia, 23 March 2022

Vasily Petrenko continues his ‘Great British Music’ series with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, but with an aptly programmed Russian concerto.

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London

24 Mar 2022

Petrenko and the RPO at full power in Britten, Shostakovich and Walton

By Mark Valencia

Lugano

Lean, unsentimental Tchaikovsky from Krzysztof Urbański in Lugano

By Mark Pullinger, 25 March 2021

Krzysztof Urbański gives neat and tidy performances of three Tchaikovsky works with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, but are they a little too anaemic?

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Lugano

25 Mar 2021

Lean, unsentimental Tchaikovsky from Krzysztof Urbański in Lugano

By Mark Pullinger

Jerusalem

Jerusalem's International Chamber Music Festival: secret lair of great pianists

By Alexandra Ivanoff, 03 September 2016

Where does one go to hear some of the world’s greatest pianists? To Jerusalem. More specifically, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the annual ten-day musical delight in the Holy City in early September.

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Jerusalem

07 Sep 2016

Jerusalem's International Chamber Music Festival

By Alexandra Ivanoff

Gstaad

Some memorable moments in a mixed cello concert

By David Karlin, 08 February 2013

Reviewing concerts by young performers can be a tricky business, particularly when the material is highly varied and the way it is played even more so. Whenever I formed an opinion about the cello playing of Pablo Ferrández in today’s concert in Gstaad Chapel, I found myself contradicting it in the following piece.

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Gstaad

09 Feb 2013

Some memorable moments in a mixed cello concert

By David Karlin