A Bridled Ride with Brooklyn Rider

By Sofia Nyblom, 02 May 2014

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Reviewed at Konserthuset Stockholm: Grünewaldsalen, Stockholm on 26 April 2014

Schubert, String Quartet in C minor "Quartettsatz" D.703

Glass, String Quartet no. 2 "Company"

Ljova, Culai, for string quartet

Bartók, String Quartet no. 2 in A minor, Sz.67, Op.17

Jacobsen, Three Miniatures for string quartet

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Brooklyn Rider alive and rocking at Wigmore Hall

Christopher Woodley, 8th July

Brooklyn Rider is a first-rate advertisement for the string quartet in NYC. A quiet approach to their artistry, stylish playing, and a gorgeous sound brings midsummer joy to Wigmore Hall.

****1

Wendy Whelan / Brian Brooks: Some of a Thousand Words

Jaime Robles, 29th November

The body as it moves, in all its human vulnerability, is never free of emotion. Wendy Whelan and Brian Brooks collaborate on Some of A Thosand Words, performed in San Francisco.

*****

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

Kinan Azmeh offers a sampling of delights with St Luke’s

No’a L. bat Miri, 15th April

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.

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Sofia Nyblom

Sofia Nyblom is a Swedish arts journalist, critic, presenter and radio and tv-producer. With a background as a professionally trained singer, she today prefers watching opera and singing in choir - and she loves dance. Twitter: @nyblomsofia. Her website is here.