This post is one in a sequence which lists (mostly) live music I have heard, as best as memory allows. I write to have a record of my musical experiences and these entries are intended as postcards from me to my future self. All opinions are personal, although music historians from the 25th Century may find some of them of interest.
Other posts in this collection can be found here. The most recent prior post in this sequence is here.
- The London Orlando Orchestra under Claudia Jablonski with soloist
Ugnė Liepa Žuklytė (violin) in a concert in St Cyprian’s Church, Clarence Gate, London on Sunday 19 January 2025. The programme:- Sibelius: Concerto for Violin
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
About 35 people attended this free concert in St Cyprian’s Anglican church. The Orlando Orchestra comprises mostly student musicians and was founded by Ms Jablonski in 2023. As with their second performance in June last year, this performance was again outstanding. The acoustics of the church are excellent, and the orchestra filled the space completely. The third movement of the Sibelius, with its dark, northern winter energy, was sublime.
I heard the Southbank Sinfonia play Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony last February. I still find Prokofiev’s melodic and harmonic spikiness mostly alien to my musical thinking, but the work is growing on me, as I hear it again. Ms Jablonski’s interpretation was lighter and more humorous than I recall the Sinfonia version being. More power to her elbow!