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125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programmeIn May 1901, Wigmore Hall’s inaugural concert began, of course, with God Save the King – the words sounding novel to an audience who, until a few months earlier, had been singing it for Queen Victoria. The programme continued with a starry lineup including the composer and piano virtuoso Ferruccio Busoni...
125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths
Wigmore Hall celebrated its 125th anniversary with a two-week festival, kicking off with a partial recreation of its inaugural 1901 concert. The event featured a starry lineup performing works from the original programme, including Beethoven and Bach. The concert was described as a celebration of the venue's strengths rather than a formal historical exercise.
Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu review – superstar soprano unleashes her inner Valkyrie
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Norwegian singer’s remarkable ability to inhabit a character, her warmth on stage and the control and tenderness she brought to the more intimate songs made this a very special recitalWigmore Hall is turning 125, its director John Gilhooley was being granted honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society, and everyone in the audience was shouted a free drink, but there was another cause for celebration on Sunday night. With Lise Davidsen, the world’s most...
Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu review – superstar soprano unleashes her inner Valkyrie
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Norwegian singer’s remarkable ability to inhabit a character, her warmth on stage and the control and tenderness she brought to the more intimate songs made this a very special recitalWigmore Hall is turning 125, its director John Gilhooley was being granted honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society, and everyone in the audience was shouted a free drink, but there was another cause for celebration on Sunday night. With Lise Davidsen, the world’s most...
Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody played as a distant memory by the first violin, which reached slowly upwards to a final crystalline harmonic. Pizzicato, diminuendo, silence.
Danish String Quartet review – captivating performance from a world-class group
Wigmore Hall, LondonThe quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody played as a distant memory by the first violin, which reached slowly upwards to a final crystalline harmonic. Pizzicato, diminuendo, silence.
Risk-taking, rigour and radicalism – Daniel Harding is an exciting prospect for Los Angeles
Also, happy 125th to the Wigmore Hall, and, the vivid soundworld of 16th-century SpainA tale of two conductors on the west coast of America this week. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that Daniel Harding will be their next music director from 2027, which is also when Elim Chan starts her job leading the San Francisco Symphony. These are both forward-looking appointments, showing a commitment to the future of these orchestras and the art-form in California.Mind you, San...
T'ang Quartet co-founder and violist Lionel Tan dies at 60 after cancer battle
T'ang Quartet co-founder and violist Lionel Tan dies at 60 after cancer battle The Singaporean violist and founding member of the internationally acclaimed T'ang Quartet and former Singapore Symphony Orchestra musician, has died at the age of 60. Singapore violist Lionel Tan, a founding member of the acclaimed T'ang Quartet and former member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, has died at the age of 60. The news was announced by the quartet in a Facebook post on Monday (Jun 1).