sat 24/05/2025

Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Wigmore Hall review - family fun, fire and finesse

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Bach St John Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - conscience against conformism

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Goldberg Variations, Ólafsson, Wigmore Hall review - Bach in the shadow of Beethoven

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Verdi Requiem, Philharmonia, Muti, RFH review - new sparks from an old flame

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La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review - blooms in the wild garden

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Czech Philharmonic, Bychkov, Barbican review - from Russia, with tough love

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The Capulets and the Montagues, English Touring Opera review - the wise guys are singing like canaries

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Bach's Mass in B minor, The English Concert, Bezuidenhout, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - solemnity and splendour

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Sidorova, Philharmonia, Alsop, Royal Festival Hall review - ladies of the dance

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BBC Singers, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, Kings Place review - on the way to heaven via King's Cross

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Leif Ove Andsnes, Wigmore Hall review - colour and courage, from Hardanger to Majorca

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Spence, Perez, Richardson, Wigmore Hall review - a Shakespearean journey in song

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The English Concert, Bicket, Wigmore Hall review - a Baroque banquet for Christmas

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Messiah, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - once more, with real feeling

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Bach Mendelssohn Festival, Part I, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra review - the flame that never died

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La Serenissima, Wigmore Hall review - an Italian menu to savour

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