Classical meets Modern in an evening of chamber music at Berlin's Konzerthaus

By Christie Franke, 09 March 2014

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Kleiner Saal, Berlin on 7 March 2014

Haydn, Piano Trio no. 29 in G major, Hob XV:15

Weber, Trio for flute, cello and piano in G minor, Op.63

Villa-Lobos, Assobio à Jato for Flute and Cello

Martinů, Trio for flute, cello and piano, H 300

Silvia Careddu, Flute

Friedemann Ludwig, Cello

Anna Kirichenko, Piano

Oddballs and outcasts in the ballroom

Sam Johnstone, 9th October

In a former ballroom in the up-and-coming Neukölln district, the orchestra’s chamber ensemble presented an eccentric programme of music by oddballs and outcasts.

**111

La Fantastique très classique de Hengelbrock au Festival Berlioz

Philippe Ramin, 31st August

La symphonie emblématique du compositeur de La Côte-Saint-André a bénéficié de l'engagement d'un bel Orchestre National de France, malheureusement émoussé par la direction de Thomas Hengelbrock.

**111

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

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Christie Franke

Christie Franke is a Berlin-based writer and opera lover. Her blog, Tiny Doom’s Opernpalais, chronicles her adventures as an opera-lover and writer, serving as discussion ground for character profiles, operatic plot holes, and the magic of music in everyday life.