Flute and Piano Recital

By Publicity at CSMS , 19 April 2011

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Reviewed at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall, Chipping Sodbury on 12 April 2011

Mozart, Andante in C major for flute and orchestra, K315 (K285e)

Bartók, Suite Paysanne Hongroise

Reinecke, Flute Sonata in E minor, “Undine”, Op.167

Sancan, Sonatine

Debussy, Syrinx

Prokofiev, Sonata for Flute and Piano in D major, Op.94

Daniel Swain, Piano

Matthew Featherstone, Flute

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

Johnston’s Tavener the highlight for the Brighton Philharmonic

Nick Boston, 29th March

Warm Vaughan Williams and energetic Richter and Vivaldi from MacGregor and the BPO strings, with an astonishing performance of Tavener’s The Protecting Veil from Guy Johnston the highlight.

****1

The Fibonacci Quartet give a compelling concert in Sheffield

Phil Parker, 28th March

The Fibonacci Quartet has been accumulating prizes and headlines like they’re going out of fashion, and this Music in the Round concert showed why.

****1

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