Aspects of love from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

By Mark Pullinger, 30 September 2020

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Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 30 September 2020

Schubert, Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D.487

Glinka, Doubt (Somnenie)

Borodin, The beautiful girl does not love me

Whitley, This is My Love Poem for You

Walker, Lyric for Strings

Barber, Dover Beach, Op.3

Korngold, Piano Quintet in E major, Op.15

Rodgers, South Pacific: Some enchanted evening

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Matthew Rose, Bass

Elena Urioste, Violin

Savitri Grier, Violin

Rosalind Ventris, Viola

Laura van der Heijden, Cello

Tom Poster, Piano

Travels with a cello: Laura van der Heijden touches down in Sheffield

Steve Draper, 6th December

It's all the Bs for Laura van der Heijden and Tom Poster for Music in the Round.

****1

Tom Poster stars in a Hallé concert of Nordic magic

Peter Connors, 13th December

Grieg's Piano Concerto played by Tom Poster and the Hallé under Stpehen Bell was the highlight of a popular programme of Nordic favourites by Grieg and Sibelius

****1

A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Thomas May, 16th January

Presented without staging, Seattle Opera’s concert Daphne places Strauss’ extreme vocal demands and saturated orchestral writing in sharp relief, offering a high-risk encounter with a rarely heard late opera.

****1

The Magic Flute returns in triumph to the Royal Opera House

Christopher Woodley, 10th October

Sir David McVicar's classic staging of The Magic Flute, now over 20 years old, shines afresh in a stylish performance conducted by Marie Jacquot, making her Covent Garden debut.

****1

White hot intensity in Jurowski’s Lyatoshynsky

Mark Pullinger, 2nd April

The London Philharmonic welcomes back its Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski for a typically challenging programme of dark Russian and Ukrainian scores.

****1

And they were the most divine gods: Das Rheingold in Munich

Phillip Richter, 3rd November

Tobias Kratzer's prelude to this new Ring cycle exceeds all expectations and scores a musical-theatrical success.

*****

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Aspects of love in an enchanting evening from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective