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Live Performance Reviews
Welcome to our index of live performance reviews. Reviews now normally appear here within a few days of the concert concerned, with highlights appearing in the next issue of The Organ. To have your concert or performance reviewed, contact the editor at editor@theorganmag.com. For recording and book reviews, browse our reviews index.
Current Performance Reviews
- 2010
- Hastings Concert Series - The Twenty Second Series
May 21-24 2010 - Simon Johnson
St Paul?s Cathedral Virtuosi, 3rd June 2010 - Regensburg Festival
May 21 - 24 2010
- 2009
- Thomas Trotter
February 11th. Birmingham Town Hall - Birmingham Bach Choir
April 6th. Birmingham Oratory - Ex Cathedra
March 16th. Birmingham Oratory - Ex Cathedra
April 13th. Symphony Hall - Royal Opera Requiems
March 23rd. Symphony Hall
Archive Performance Reviews
- 2008
- Anne Page at Adlington Hall
Adlington Hall, November 14th - Verdi: Aida/Handel: Partenope
ENO 22nd and 24th October - Elijah: Ex Cathedra
18th October, Birmingham Town Hall - All Saints Hastings
Summer Series 2008 - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
WNO, 26-27th September - Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
ENO, 20th September - The Music of Olivier Messiaen: The 'From the Canyons to the Stars Festival' and the BBC Proms
Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall - Prom 62
1st September, Royal Albert Hall - King's College, Cambridge Choir
30th August, Maltings, Snape - Proms 50-51
24th August, Royal Albert Hall - Prom 41
16th August, Royal Albert Hall - Halifax Parish Church - Christopher Newton
16th August, Halifax Parish Church - Worcester Cathedral - Gillian Weir
8th August, Worcester Cathedral - Bridlington Priory - David Briggs
26 July, Bridlington Priory - Buxton Festival - Martin Ford
21 July, Buxton Festival - Prom 2
19th July, Royal Albert Hall - Israel in Egypt
6th July, York Minster - Candide
25th June, ENO - CBSO
21 June, Birmingham Symphony Hall - Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
29th May, Glyndebourne Festival Opera - Der Rosenkavalier
22nd May, ENO - Mayfield Festival
25th April - 11th May, Mayfield - Bach: St Matthew Passion
22nd March, The Sage, Gateshead - Falstaff
13th March, WNO, Birmingham Hippodrome - Lucia di Lammermoor
16th February, ENO - 2007
- Turn Of The Screw
26th November, ENO - Photoperative
17th November, Glyndebourne - London Philharmonic Orchestra
9th November, Royal Festival Hall, London - Aida
8th November, ENO - Vasari Singers
23rd October, St Martin-in-the-Fields - Event
17th October, Birmingham Town Hall - BBC Proms 66/67
3rd September - BBC Prom 46
18th August - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
27th July, Glyndebourne - BBC Prom 14
23rd July - BBC Prom 11
21st July - Nigel Ogden/Kerry Beaumont/David Flood
9th/16th/23rd July, All Saints, Hastings - BBC Prom
7th July - H?ndel en France
- Jean Guillou
19th June, Paris and 4th July, London - Philip Glass: Satyagraha
5th April, ENO - The People's Passion
2nd April, Queen Elizabeth Hall - Elijah - Sussex Chorus
4th March, Worth Abbey Church - Alison Balsom, Trumpet, David Goode, Organ
4th March, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - Daniel Roth
23rd February, Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Handel and His World - Andrew Benson-Wilson
18th February, St Lawrence, Canons Park - Handel: Agrippina
5th February, ENO - Tippett & Britten, Crouch End Festival Chorus
20th January, Barbican - The King's Consort
19th January, Cadogan Hall - Catherine Ennis
27th November, Queen Elizabeth Hall - Royal Hospital Chelsea
15th November, Royal Hospital Chelsea - Grieg - Piano Concerto, Holst - The Planets
12th November, Barbican - WNO Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
11th November, Birmingham Hippodrome - WNO Monteverdi: The Return of Ulysses
17th October, Apollo Theatre, Oxford - Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Royal Albert Hall, London - Handel's Messiah
10th May 2006, Royal Albert Hall, London - Montiverdi's Orfeo
15th April 2006, London Coliseum - Bach's St John Passion
11th April 2006, Hereford Cathedral
14th April 2006, St George's, Hanover Square, London - Handel's Samson
1st April 2006, St John, Smith Square, London - Poulenc, Gounod and Vaughan Williams with Peter Siepmann and the Nottingham University Sinfonia
19th March 2006, University of Nottingham - John Keys in recital
18th March 2006, St Helen's, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire - Handel's Hercules
15th March 2006, Barbican Theatre, London - WNO sing Handel's Jephtha and Wagner's Flying Dutchman
1st and 2nd March 2006, Wales Millennium Centre - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the LSO
21st February 2006, Barbican Hall, London - Elgar's Dream of Gerontius
18th February 2006, St Albans Abbey - Handel's Rodelinda with Il Compleso Barocco
1st February 2006, Barbican Hall, London - Mozart piano music with the Rautio Trio
26th January 2006, St Martin in the Fields, London - Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Barbican
22nd January 2006, Barbican Hall, London - ENO's Billy Budd
3rd December 2005, London Coliseum - WNO's Barber of Seville and Merry Widow
29th and 30th November 2005, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton - Beethoven at the Barbican Hall
27th and 22nd November 2005, London - Coram Boy - Handel and the Foundling Hospital
23rd November 2005, Royal National Theatre, London - Handel's Xerxes at the ENO
19th November 2005, London Coliseum - Handel's Theodora with the Buxton Musical Society
13th November 2005, St John's Church, Buxton - Ladies First with Anne Marsden Thomas
9th November 2005, Notre Dame de France, London - 9th International Competition Xavier Darasse
September/October, Toulouse - Verdi's Don Carlos with the WNO
17th September 2005, Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff - ENO's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
16th September 2005, London Coliseum - Jonathan Dove's Flight
18th August 2005, Glyndebourne Festival Opera - Handel's Giulio Cesare
28th July 2005, Glyndebourne Festival Opera - Garsington 2005
6th, 7th and 8th July, Garsington Manor, Oxford - Johann Christian Bach's Temistocle
26th June 2005, Th??tre du Capitole, Toulouse - Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin
8th June 2005, Notre Dame de France, Leicester Square, London - Philip Glass's Orphee
27th May 2005, The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London - Organ Fireworks with David Goode
24th May 2005, Birmingham Symphony Hall - M?d?e de Marc-Antoine Charpentier
19th May 2005, Salle Gaveau, Paris - Handel's Jephtha with the ENO
18th April 2005, London Coliseum - Roy Massey celebrates Hereford's restoration
7th May 2005, Hereford Cathedral - Berlioz' Te Deum conducted by David Temple
4th May 2005, Royal Festival Hall - Montiverdi's Poppea with the Op?ra National du Rhin
30th April 2005, Strasbourg - Handel's Messiah with the Hastings Philharmonic Choir
9th April 2005, St Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings - ENO's Twilight of the Gods
2nd April 2005, London Coliseum - Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Elgar Chorale
19th March 2005, Worcester Cathedral - Mendelssohn's Elijah in Eastbourne
12th March 2005, St Saviour's, Eastbourne - La Traviata and Wozzeck with the WNO
18th February 2005, Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff - Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the London Chorus, New London Orchestra and Ronald Corp
5th February 2005, Barbican, London - Bach's Mass in B Minor with David Hill and the Bach Choir
2nd February 2005, Royal Festival Hall - Naji Hakim inaugurates Selwyn College's new L?tourneau
30th January 2005, Selwyn College, Cambridge - Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the ENO
21st January 2005, London Coliseum - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Hertfordshire Chorus and David Temple
15th January 2005 - Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Royal Festival Hall
7th December 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London - Classic film Napoleon at the Royal Festival Hall
5th December 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London - ENO's new production of Pirates of Penzance
4th December 2004, London Coliseum - Lionel Rogg in discussion and recital
2nd December 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London - Handel's Semele by English National Opera
1st December 2004, London Coliseum - Dame Gillian Weir at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham
29th November 2004, Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Britten's War Requiem with the CBSO
13th November 2004, Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Margaret Phillips at St. Martin with St. Peter, London Road, Worcester
13th November 2004, Worcester - ENO's Siegfried
6th November 2004, London Coliseum - Rameau: Les Paladins
19th October 2004, Barbican Theatre, London - Elgar: With Proud Thanksgiving and The Dream of Gerontius
6th October 2004, South Bank Centre, London - 2004 Proms - Brian Hick overviews the series<
Royal Albert Hall, London - 2004 Presteigne Festival - reviews by David Hart and Christopher Morley.
Presteigne, Wales