En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Kings Place

Il en va de la musique comme de certaines drogues addictives. Une accoutumance peut naître, réclamant une expérience toujours plus forte.

Cette année, King’s Place célèbre le 140ème anniversaire de la naissance de Arnold Schoenberg, compositeur autrichien surtout connu pour s’être distancé de la tonalité classique et avoir développé le dodécaphonisme. 

At Kings Place, the Argentinian pianist's Beethoven takes time to settle, but her finely balanced Chopin tells a different story. 

One hour of the most attractive and approachable music at Kings Place, with no interval, finishing at eight... but a hall half full. 

The Ligeti Quartet’s performance of Terry Riley’s works showcase technical mastery and creative interpretation, honouring Riley’s legacy while exploring their own unique approach to his compositions.

The exquisite ensemble of Aurora and BBC Singers in the intimate setting of Kings Place are reason enough to linger longer on earth.

Engaging performances, including two world premieres, are served up by one of Kings Place's partners in the ‘Scotland Unwrapped’ season. 

At Kings Place Aurora Orchestra and Donald Grant fail to impress with a straggling programme of traditional arrangements, composed pieces and a world premiere. 

Chant, Scottish culture and Judith Weir are the focus for this latest BBC Singers programme.

A “Sound Unwrapped” programme, featuring Aurora Orchestra's trimmed line-up of five musicians and one sound engineer on electronics, proves to be an absolute success. 

I Fagiolini and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble give a very special performance at Kings Place. 

A blinder of a first half, but Aurora score an own-goal in the second with Anna Meredith's Anno. 

Two distinctly different halves to this evening in Kings Hall: chamber delicacy and subtlety in Ligeti and CPE Bach, and a barnstorming approach in Schubert's greatest symphony.

Ensemble Explore and Lotte Betts-Dean delight London's Kings Place with captivating sensations of blissful repose.

A sonorous performance by Exaudi brings to life Eugene Birman's Requiem for Peace, Russia: Today.

The latest instalment of Kings Place's “Sound Unwrapped” series delivers wonderful musicianship in both jazz and early music, but not the promised “continuous fusion of styles”.

Steve Reich and Julia Wolfe feature in Colin Currie Quartet's Full Dark Ride at London's Kings Place, to launch the “Sound Unwrapped” extravaganza. 

Britten and Shostakovich rub shoulders at Kings Place in a programme that careers into darkness with the latter's desolate Fourteenth Symphony. 

The Brodsky Quartet deliver deeply moving performances of all 15 Shostakovich string quartets, with added value and insight from writers Elizabeth Wilson and Marina Frolova-Walker. 

The baritone explores the extremes of youthful emotion in a varied programme of song with pianist Paul Cibis in the Voices Unwrapped season.

Precise and contoured lamentation supported by thrilling chorus work at Kings Place

“I have no idea what will happen," Montero admitted as she launched into an improvised performance to accompany Charlie Chaplin's film, The Immigrant.

As part of 'London Unwrapped', countertenor Iestyn Davies presented vocal portraits of the altos – male and female – for whom Handel composed in the capital. 

Forget those po-faced tenors of yore; this is joyous music and Allan Clayton was just the man to deliver it.

Imaginative programming from Aurora Orchestra, including striking miniatures from Musgrave and Meredith, luxurious Ravel and pared back Vaughan Williams, with joyous Mendelssohn to finish.

Steven Osborne and players from Aurora Orchestra take our emotions in opposite directions at Kings Place.

The streamed concert showed the Aurora players' prowess as chamber musicians, joined by the excellent Swiss pianist in music by Mozart, Ravel and a specially commissioned new work by Sasha Scott.

In our Covid-infested world, quality music making is still possible, as demonstrated by Imogen Cooper and her Aurora Orchestra friends. 

The Sixteen contribute intimate Music for Reflection to Voces8's Live from London series.

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. 

A month into the year-long "Nature Unwrapped" programme at Kings Place, it was the turn of its resident Aurora Orchestra to contribute to the series.

The French pianist's approach may be uncomplicated, but crisp articulation, interesting dynamics and a fine sense of shifting moods enliven a recital full of variety.

Nicholas Collon decides that Mendelssohn is really a very revolutionary composer, while Amy Dickson's saxophone and Ronald Brautigam in Mozart provide vibrant contrasts.

Missy Mazzoli's double bass concerto receives its UK premiere as part of Kings Place's Venus Unwrapped season. 

Thanks to the dedicated work of scholars and practitioners in the field, in the last decade, audiences in London have become relatively familiar with the music of female composers in the Baroque period.

Unjustly neglected works by Boulanger, Beach, and Clarke shine despite frustratingly inconsistent playing. 

It was unfair to pair the exquisite madrigals and songs of Barbara Strozzi with a weighty piece by Monteverdi.

Imogen Cooper shone in Aurora's serious and fulsome performances of Mozart.

An adventurous and unusual end to Kings Place's Time Unwrapped series and some striking collaborations with Aurora Orchestra.

Alasdair Beatson presented a dazzling programme of 20th-century piano music, with Harrison Birtwistle at its centre. 

A programme of late Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert explores music at the limits.

The unlikely pairing of jazz and Baroque makes complete sense under the baton of Sam Poppleton. 

In his mesmerising London Piano Festival programme, Pavel Kolesnikov explores Couperin and Schumann.

Freshness, enthusiasm and excellent curation made for an entertaining evening courtesy of Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt. 

Hugo Ticciati and Víkingur Ólafsson explore notions of time, but a lesson in mindful performance comes from the gravity-defying Sanddorn Balance act.  

Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver were in tune with each other in every way in this fascinating and entertaining programme inspired by Marcel Proust.

Experiments in music and ideas brought together by the London Sinfonietta and guests at a special concert all about space and time.

The Aurora Orchestra's principals and pianist Shai Wosner present a programme of chamber works that balance light and dark hues.

A rare performance of Stockhausen’s Stimmung, a key work in the development of contemporary vocal music, proves it still has resonance 50 years on from its première.

The Colin Currie Group offer an involving and scintillating experience of one of America’s great composers as part of the Time Unwrapped series at Kings Place.