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Andrew Clements

May 2025

  • Crouch End Festival Chorus

    Elgar: The Kingdom review – respectful and admirable, but this is still a work hard to love

  • György Kurtág (left) and Pierre-Laurent Aimard

    Kurtág: Játékok review – Aimard is perfect guide to major set of piano miniatures

April 2025

  • The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London, England<br>E7HB8X The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London, England

    The Proms 2025 season offers plenty both to cherish and challenge

    Andrew Clements
  • Bruckner & Gesualdo: Echoing Across the Centuries, Monteverdi Choir ,
Jonathan Sells (conductor )

    Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets album review – less might be more for Monteverdi’s Gesualdo

  • The main attraction … Lise Davidsen.

    Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer album review – Davidsen’s Senta is spine-tingling

  • Zimerman with violinist Maria Nowak, viola player Katarzyna Budnik and cellist Yuya Okamoto.

    Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos 2 and 3 album review – high-class chamber music with a star team player

  • Ravel: Complete Songs album review – Martineau’s survey is full of treats

  • Bartók: Piano Works album review – Sonya Bach guides us from romantic roots to expressionist power

  • Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk album review – controversial opera’s drama is dulled

March 2025

  • Bertrand Chamayou.

    Ravel: Fragments album review – Chamayou’s piano dances and dazzles in a luminous birthday celebration

  • Pierre Boulez working with Quatuor Diotima in 2012.

    Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor album review – first complete recording illuminates its vertiginous contrasts

  • Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic.

    Mahler Symphony No 3 album review – slightly sub-par outing for ‘least hysterical’ work

  • Nicky Spence, tenor.

    Fauré: La Bonne Chanson and Other Songs album review – the ecstasy of unbuttoned love

  • Dunedin Consort/Butt review – A bog, but not standard as Fennessy’s new cantata premieres

  • Mozart: Serenades; Gran Partita review – bright tones and period-instrument agility

  • Organised Delirium: Piano Sonatas by Boulez, Shostakovich, Bartók and Eisler album review – coruscating and exceptional

  • Theatre of Voices review – lucid tonality, Italian poetry and a contemporary classic

February 2025

  • Francisco Coll.

    Francisco Coll: A Portrait album review – assured collection charts the rise of a compelling voice

    Coll is one of Europe’s most distinctive composers, and the Hague-based ensemble’s virtuosity showcases the startling fertility of his imagination
  • Burst of creativity … pianist Saskia Giorgini and tenor Ian Bostridge.

    Twilight: Schumann Songs album review – treasures galore from vivid and sensitive Ian Bostridge

    Tenor Ian Bostridge brings wonderful clarity and sensitivity to this collection that includes all of Schumann’s greatest song-cycles
  • Vimbayi Kaziboni conducts Klangforum Wien and mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj at the Wigmore Hall on Sunday

    Klangforum Wien review – Vienna focus brings lucid and colour-filled Pierrot Lunaire

    Schoenberg’s revolutionary work powered the new-music ensemble’s second Wigmore programme, based around 20th-century modernism
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