Tag Archives: Mendelssohn

Zinging strings: Janine Jansen leads an all-Stradivarius octet at Cadogan Hall

Posted on December 21, 2022 by Mark Pullinger

Janine Jansen and friends Cadogan Hall, 19th December 2022 When the biographies for the instruments take up as much space in the programme as the biographies for the performers, something different is about to occur. A multi-million pound Stradivarius ensemble … Continue reading →

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Västerås Sinfonietta unleashes nature and embraces joy at Kings Place

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Mark Pullinger

Crawford-Phillips/ Västerås Sinfonietta Kings Place, 19th February 2020 If laughter is the best medicine, then the power of music to uplift the spirits cannot be far behind, especially when the music-making is imbued with such unadulterated joy. I doubt I’ve … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Liaisons and Magic Horns close Oxford Lieder

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Louise Alder, Nikolay Borchev, Konstantin Krimmel Oxford Lieder, 26th October 2019 There is something deliciously perverse about opening the final recital of a 16-day, 80-event song festival with an opera overture, but Sholto Kynoch, pianist, artistic director and programming mastermind … Continue reading →

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Chameleon colours from Batiashvili, Capuçon and Thibaudet at the Barbican

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Batiashvili–Capuçon–Thibaudet Trio **** Barbican Hall, 12th November 2018 It’s always interesting to watch star soloists making sweet chamber music together: musicians you’re used to seeing in the concerto spotlight thrown together as equal partners in the recital room. But when … Continue reading →

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Scheherazade through a monochrome veil: Simon Trpčeski at Wigmore Hall

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Simon Trpčeski *** Wigmore Hall, 2nd May 2018 Take some stiff paper and a stick of charcoal, then attempt to draw Vincent van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Cypresses. However skilled the sketch, it’s never going to be able to replicate the colours … Continue reading →

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