Lord Rochester's Monkey

By Alan Coady, 19 August 2011

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Reviewed at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh on 15 August 2011

McGibbon, Sonata in D

Marais, Saille de Caffé

Marchand, Chaconne in D minor

Bernier, Le Caffé

Marais, Le Tableau d L'Operation de la Taille

Marais, Les Relevailles et Suitte

D'Anglebert, Tombeau de M de Chambonnières

Frances Cooper, Soprano

Emma Lloyd, Violin

John Kitchen, Harpsichord

Mark Summers, Bass Viol

Gordon Ferries, Theorbo

Late night food for the soul at the Edinburgh Fringe

David Smythe, 16th August

At the Edinburgh Frings, a niche festival of late night classical music thoughtfully programmed at Old St Paul’s Church nestling off Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is food for the soul.

****1

More gold than corn: María Dueñas plays Korngold at the Barbican

Mark Pullinger, 22nd May

The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

****1

Intimate colossus: Daniil Trifonov with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

Max Lima, 21st May

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

****1

The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

****1

Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe and the LSO

Roy Westbrook, 21st May

Songs and symphonies from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, concluding with a vision of “heavenly life” from Gustav Mahler.

****1

Conviction, passion and clarity: Sir Stephen Hough at Wigmore Hall

Christopher Woodley, 19th May

Fragments by Brahms, Schoenberg and Schubert orbit Beethoven's Waldstein and Schumann's Carnaval in another masterful recital from Sir Stephen Hough.

****1

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Alan Coady

Alan has taught classical guitar in East Lothian schools since 1982. A graduate in Music of the then Huddersfield Polytechnic, he has a soft spot for the contemporary. He also writes a Musical Blog, where the special interest is the intersection of music/language/science.