Nicola Benedetti's Siver Violin tour at Edinburgh's Usher Hall

By Jeremy Morris, 18 March 2013

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Reviewed at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 16 March 2013

Programme to include:

Ravel, Tzigane

Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op.28 (with piano accompaniment)

Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio in A minor, "In memory of a Great Artist" Op.50

Nicola Benedetti, Violin

Leonard Elschenbroich, Cello

Alexei Grynyuk, Piano

Singing melodies and rapid-fire showmanship from Alexei Grynyuk

Nick Boston, 19th May

Delicacy and effortlessly flowing melodies in Mendelssohn and Schubert, with dazzling extremes and showmanship in Liszt at the Brighton Festival.

****1

West Cork Chamber Music Festival ends in style

Michael Roddy, 7th July

British cellist Laura van der Heijden proved herself to be the sister of soul on the cello for the second night in succession.

*****

Nicola Benedetti and some Spectroscopy go well together at the Bristol Proms

Katy S. Austin, 2nd August

The inaugural Bristol Proms are nearly over. Indeed, if you’re reading this any later than Saturday evening, they’ve been and gone. The festival, run by the Bristol Old Vic, has deliberately been unlike its London namesake.

****1

Dramatic Dvořák 7 hits home in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 24th February

Elena Schwarz conducts the NSO in a rousing rendition of Dvořák's famous Seventh Symphony, while cellist Leonard Elschenbroich offers punchy Khachaturian.

***11

Unsettling Shostakovich from Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic

Peter Connors, 5th February

Anja Bihlmaier presents the scintillating Suite by Galina Ustvolskaya, an unsettling Shostakovich 9, which finds comedy and tragedy side by side, and then Dvořák’s heart-warming Cello Concerto with Leonard Elschenbroich.

****1

Four centuries of British music

Nick Boston, 9th August

Affecting Britten, distinctive Elias and popular Elgar, with a curio of arranged Purcell thrown in, from Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

***11

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Jeremy Morris

Former president of Keble College music society, tank commander and head of languages at Scotland's leading independent school, Jeremy lists violin, viola and motor cycles among his principal recreations. He is particularly interested in string chamber music of all periods.