Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Grieg’s Piano Concerto in Tivoli Gardens

By Mark Pullinger, 25 August 2019

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“the Adagio unfurled its tendrils with dewy delicacy”

Reviewed at Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen on 24 August 2019

Berwald, Estrella de Soria: Overture

Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16

Schumann, Romance in F sharp major, Op.28 no.2

Gade, Symphony no.1 in C minor

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano

Concerto Copenhagen

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Conductor

Chiaroscuro extinguished: a self-indulgent Poppea in Copenhagen

Mengguang Huang, 26th April

Christoph Marthaler’s staging of Monteverdi’s Poppea for the Royal Danish Opera is a study in boredom.

**111

“Up the oboes” in Concerto Copenhagen's Bach in Essen

Laurence Vittes, 16th May

CoCo's players used a minimum of overt embellishment, always effective and appropriate, as if they felt that nothing more was needed than the printed notes.

****1

An occasionally brilliant Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera

Kevin W Ng, 25th May

Malin Hartelius and Palle Knudsen electrify an otherwise competent Don Giovanni in Copenhagen.

***11

Ein Haydn Sturm und Drang: Concerto Copenhagen in Brühl

Jens Klier, 22nd July

Lars Ulrik Mortensen versetzte in drei unvergessliche Rausche, weil in ihm und dem Ensemble lebendiger Haydn-Witz und kraftstrotzende Haydn-Klasse steckten.

*****

CoCo und Couleur in Magdeburg

Jens Klier, 18th March

Concerto Copenhagen bot drei Geschmäcker, drei Instrumente im Mittelpunkt und vor allem eine unterhaltsame, feine und derbe Telemann-Sause.

****1

Jordi Savall in seinen Elementen

Jens Klier, 27th November

Jubilar und Gäste bekamen mit dem so verlässlichen wie enthusiastischen Concerto Copenhagen ein tolles Geschenk präsentiert.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.