National Youth Orchestra/Jaime Martin
7 January 2020
This was a concert of powerful voices. Quite literally, to start with. Before the 164 instrumentalists of the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) played a note, they stood and sang a workers’ protest, Auf den Strassen zu Singen, by Hanns Eisler. An unexpected opening, but, sung in English, its message of truth and justice rang out.
Full Review: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/national-youth-orchestra-jaime-martin-review-few-performances-of-shostakovich-will-top-this-tctq30rpk
London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
20 January 2020
We’re going to be hearing a lot of Beethoven this year, that’s for sure. As orchestras embark on extensive celebrations for his 250th anniversary, there are bound to be the naysayers who moan that his music has enough airtime already, thank you very much. The London Symphony Orchestra’s opening Beethoven 250 programme was a reminder, however, of what it means to look afresh at music we think we know, and the power of truly paying attention.
Full Review: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lso-rattle-review-energetic-beethoven-but-berg-was-revelatory-s2rqh6g6m
Andreas Scholl, Tamar Halperin
27 January 2020
Ancient melody, distant song and soft laments. Lullabies, soliloquies and farewells. Skilfully constructed and exquisitely performed, this “Twilight People” recital charted ambiguous moods, half-states of remembrance and forgetting, places of neither here nor there. The mesmerising beauty of Andreas Scholl’s voice sounded as if from some other world; the pianist Tamar Halperin’s contemplative approach paved the way to it
Full Review: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/andreas-scholl-review-languid-tempos-allowed-us-to-luxuriate-in-the-sound-h5xqxkptq
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