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Chineke! Orchestra: A Fiddler's Tale at Queen Elizabeth Hall review

4/5 The Chineke! Orchestra takes on Wynton Masalis’ A Fiddler’s Tale with witty and spiky results

Evening Standard · Jun 6, 2025

Creating a universe of colour: pianists Kolesnikov & Tsoy play tribute to Hockney

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy open Paris’s David Hockney retrospective with two ground-breaking concerts. By Lillie Rage

Evening Standard · May 10, 2025

BBCNOW/MacMillan/Childs review – James MacMillan’s nostalgic celebration of the euphonium

The composer conducted his new work Where the Lugar Meets the Glaisnock, beautifully played by the virtuosic David Childs

The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025

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What Hi-Fi? · Jan 3, 2025

“I realised this music is what influenced the stuff I’d been listening to – Pink Floyd, Genesis and so on”: Ben Short saved a Stravinsky album from a skip, and A Formal Horse was the result

The avant-rockers released debut album Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower in 2019, when their guitarist-vocalist told Prog how they took their time and finally got there

Louder · Dec 18, 2024

LSO/Mäkelä review – dazzle and drama, but always backed by exceptional musicality

A turbo-charged performance from the young conductor, carefully paced and full of bold choices, brought out the beauty and the terror of Stravinsky’s score

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2024

Stravinsky: Chamber Works album review – Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music offers much of interest

Students from the UK and the US, conducted by Barbara Hannigan, mix familiar Stravinsky works with the rarely heard

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024

Prom 58: Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä review – electrifying music-making from an elite team

A Parisian-flavoured programme of narrative works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Berlioz was played with precision and panache, full of relishable and memorable moments

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2024

Prom 38: Gabetta/BBCSO/Lu review – Francisco Coll premiere roams deliriously wide

The composer’s Cello Concerto, written for and performed by Sol Gabetta, was perfectly precise in conductor Tianyi Lu’s hands, despite its dizzying technical demands on soloist and orchestra

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2024

Oedipus Rex review – an unmissable and inclusive update of Stravinsky

There was wonderfully precise singing and magnificently dramatic orchestral work, but the promenading community chorus, featuring local NHS workers, may have been the crowning glory of this bold Scottish Opera staging

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2024