My Concert Highlights 2014
Anna Prohaska‘s outstanding Lieder recital at Edinburgh: vocal assurance, combined with great interpretive skills and artistic integrity
Thomas Allen‘s defiant and moving Winterreise in Oxford: an astonishing (and for me reassuring) celebration of reaching 70, and part of the extraordinary Schubert Project in that city
My return, after more than forty years, to a Sunday chamber music concert in London’s Conway Hall.
Discovering John Ireland’s Piano Concerto, with Leon McCawley and the BBC Phil at their Studio in Salford’s Media City
The dazzling Concertgebouw Orchestra performing, in Amsterdam, Stravinsky’s Jeu de Cartes under Gustavo Giumeno
The recital of Christian Zacharias at Harrogate: nothing flashy, no melodrama or excessive sentimentality, just superb pianism
My favourite chamber music group, the Sacconi Quartet, giving an electrifying performance of Janacek’s No 1 in Ripon Cathedral
The Joe Lovano-Jack DeJohnette Quartet at the Sage, Gateshead: jazz at its very best
And – the greatest disappointment – the complete Rosamunde at Vienna’s Musikverein: a piece which betrays Schubert’s creative genius and which even Harnoncourt and the Vienna Phil could make nothing of
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