From shimmering moonlight to Florentine sunshine

By Mark Pullinger, 19 December 2016

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Reviewed at Conway Hall, London on 18 December 2016

Mozart, Divertimento in D major, "Salzburg Symphony" K136 (K125a)

Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4

Tchaikovsky, String Sextet in D minor, Op.70 "Souvenir de Florence"

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***11

Warmth and pleasure in music-making from Collins and LMP

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Parry's Judith superbly performed at the Royal Festival Hall

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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.

London Mozart Players Chamber ensemble: from shimmering moonlight to Florentine sunshine