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Gardner/LPO review – tautly controlled Tippett, and whoops for Seong-Jin Cho’

The starry Korean pianist’s account of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto was joyous and compelling, while Gardner made a persuasive case for Tippett’s divisive second symphony

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

The Seven Deadly Sins review – LPO play Brecht and Weill with bite and swing

Danielle de Niese took on twinned roles of dancer and singer Anna with great style, the evening introduced by João Barradas’s fiery accordion

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024

Dance Reimagined review – LPO and Wayne McGregor are a dream team, but AI lets them down

Tonight’s Tania León premiere and reconceptualised Szymanowski ballet made a heady combination, with no need for technical trickery

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett Dean’s premiere showed a right royal row (again)

This new work by the orchestra’s composer-in-residence oscillated between the dramatic and the contemplative

Evening Standard · Apr 27, 2023

The Damnation of Faust review – Berlioz’s exemplary evocations of heaven and hell

Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic offered a timely reminder of Berlioz’s astonishing gifts as a choral and orchestral writer

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2023

LPO/Gardner review – magical outing for Tippett’s ‘unplayable’ piano concerto

Coleridge-Taylor’s stately, long-lost Solemn Prelude and a crisp, exploratory interpretation of Elgar’s first symphony completed a trio of English compositions

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023

Avalon Regal Theater: What’s up with old movie palace with glorious past?

Despite a history of nearly a century of cultural significance, the theater has sat mostly empty since 2003.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 19, 2023

Quirky, revelatory, intimate … the best classical releases of 2022

From live Tippett, locked-down Debussy and luminous Charles Koechlin to dazzling Szymanowski and dextrous Beethoven, we pick the outstanding releases of the past 12 months

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

The week in classical: It’s a Wonderful Life; A Child of Our Time; IMS Prussia Cove – review

ENO’s warm-hearted production of Jake Heggie’s operatic take on the classic Frank Capra film is full of poignant ironies

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2022

A Child of our Time/Serenade to Music, LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall concert review - inspired

These two pieces are rarely played together but it turned out to work perfectly

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2022