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Best of 2020: Classical music concerts | reviews, news & interviews Best of 2020: Classical music concerts Best of 2020: Classical music concerts Heroic smaller enterprises have kept music live under unpromising circumstances by David NiceMonday, 28 December 2020 Steven Isserlis on the first day of the Fidelio Orchestra Cafe concerts, 8 JulyNick Rutter No picture of a musician tells more of a story about 2020 than the above image of cellist Steven Isserlis, stepping out on 8 July to play, what else but Bach, to his first live – albeit small – audience in just under four month...

Next May, celebrated Maltese violinist Carmine Lauri will return to these shores for a concert at the Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) as part of the InClassica Malta international Music Festival. Lauri is a recipient of the prestigious National Order of Merit and the 2015 Malta Society of Arts Gold Medal, and is best-known for his work as co-leader of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), a post he has held since 2001 and one which has seen him lead the orchestra in recordings for blockbuster films including Star Wars, The King’s Speech. In...

Ninth Symphony (the Choral Symphony), was used as the sign-off music for some 15 years on the dominant US evening news broadcast, The Huntley Brinkley Report, five nights a week on the NBC television network. The particular performance’s recording had been conducted by the redoubtable Arturo Toscanini back in 1942, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. (How many commercial television networks still have a resident orchestra these days, hey?) This was all back in a day when even a weekly shoot-’em-up western television show aimed at children, William Tell, instead of some synthesiser-generat...

Happy birthday, Beethoven: A road map to understanding the great composer The volcanic composer, whose 250th birthday we mark this year, was a man of many parts. Here's a road map to six facets of his personality.  By Terry Blain Text size Copy shortlink: Has any composer ever expressed a wider range of emotions in music than Ludwig van Beethoven? That question will be hotly debated throughout 2020, as the classical music industry celebrates the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth in Bonn, Germany. The sheer sonic power of Beethoven'...

On Wednesday, Ludwig van Beethoven’s birthday was celebrated for the 250th time. I assume his abusive, alcoholic father wasn’t too plastered to have had baby Beethoven parties, and the composer is one who has never gone out of fashion. Indeed, Beethoven has remained such a dominant, adversity-overcoming ode-to-joy-ster that even a pandemic hasn’t been able to blow out 250 brightly burning birthday candles lighting up a darkened world. The German city of Bonn, Beethoven’s birthplace, has faddishly branded the year BTHVN2020 and provided an online storehouse for events and t...