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Erica Jeal

January 2025

  • A passion project … Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

    Khachaturian: Piano Concerto album review – giant Technicolor works given the big-screen treatment

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, are good fits for this theatrical piano concerto
  • Quay notes … the Bergen Philharmonic in Bergen.

    Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem album review – humanist masterpiece remains earthbound

    Baritone Brian Mulligan impresses in Edward Gardner’s recording that is stronger on the work’s consolation than its celebration

    • RPO/Giltburg/Petrenko review – intimate Beethoven and exhilarating Stravinsky from an orchestra on top form

    • Leif Ove Andsnes review – an insightful champion returns Tveitt to the Wigmore stage

    • Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works vol 3 album review – an ambitious symphony and a bittersweet miniature

December 2024

  • Honed timing … Richard Suart as Major-General Stanley, left, in The Pirates of Penzance.

    The Pirates of Penzance review – not modern nor general but major fun in revival of Mike Leigh’s trad staging

    Gilbert & Sullivan stalwarts Richard Suart and John Savourin ensure that English National Opera’s staging buckles your swashes; and, as apprentice pirate Frederic, William Morgan is genuinely funny

November 2024

  • Andrey Boreyko conducting the LPO in rehearsal for A Dark Century

    LPO/Kremer/Roslavets/Boreyko review – an evening of raw and uncompromising music

    The darkness of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13 and Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw had a haunting modern resonance
  • Appealing melodies … Adèle Hugo.

    Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo review – a daughter’s voice uncovered

    Composer Richard Dubugnon has given colourful life to previously unknown songs by the great French author’s youngest child, whose life descended into tragedy

    • Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear album review – strikingly rooted and assured works from young composer

    • Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Payare review – colour, pace and silky strings

    • Takács Quartet review – a superlative performance in which the music never sits still

October 2024

  • Nardus Williams and the Dunedin Consort

    Handel in Rome review – Nardus Williams sounds heart-stoppingly lovely

    This collection of youthful but complex cantatas written by the composer in Italy is a showcase for the outstanding British soprano
  • The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (with Siobhan Stagg, soprano, and Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano) conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas at the Barbican.

    LSO/Tilson Thomas review – emotional depth as Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony gleams

    The London Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 80th birthday with an authoritative but restrained account of Mahler’s Second with soloists Alice Coote and Siobhan Stagg

    • Sinfonia of London/Wilson review – this orchestra brings a whole new dimension to listening

    • Chromatica Orchestra/Politi/Balanas review – group relaunches with punch and flourish

    • The Snowmaiden review – crystalline singing brings elemental folktale to life

September 2024

  • Stephen Hough with the Philharmonia, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Philharmonia/Rouvali review – epic Nordic soundscapes of drama and disruption

  • Day and night … Jakub Hrůša and Kateřina Kněžíková

    Tag und Nacht: Strauss Songs album review – music for soprano is brisk, bright and light on its feet

  • Stylish … John Wilson conducts Sinfonia of London

    Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel album review – welcome return from Broadway band of dreams

  • The focus stays on the performances … Kristina Mkhitaryan in Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, London.

    Eugene Onegin review – stripped back staging is compelling and probing

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