New Dots (and sounds) at The Forge, Camden

By Paul Kilbey, 29 May 2013

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Reviewed at The Forge, Camden, London on 21 May 2013

Tattersall, At a distance of less than a yard (World Premiere)

Richards, Caught on the Corner (World Premiere)

Ohara, Double Helix

Simpson, Barkham Fantasy

Cutting, When the world is puddle-wonderful (World Premiere)

Holloway-Nahum, How to Avoid Huge Ships (World Premiere)

Richard Uttley, Piano

Atéa Wind Quintet

Goldscheider puts the French back into the French horn in Bradfield

Phil Parker, 25th June

A horn recital or a turgid England football international? Ben Goldscheider makes it an easy choice at this year’s Bradfield Festival of Music.

****1

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

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Paul Kilbey

Paul was Reviews Editor at Bachtrack from 2012 to February 2014. He has written on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars, the Huffington Post, the Independent and the Guardian. He holds BA and MPhil degrees in music from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and is particularly passionate about contemporary music of all types. His website is here.