
Charlotte Gardner
Critic, Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Classical music journo/critic @GramophoneMag @TheStradMag @ClassicalTop5 @qobuz @ClassicalMusic_ @takt1_klassik etc. Knitter. Occasional slackline wobbler.
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2 weeks ago |
bachtrack.com | Charlotte Gardner
“Spare us the violins!” non-London-based readers will say (and rightly so), but if there’s one thing London’s embarrassment-of-riches concert scene lacks, it’s opportunities to hear the embarrassment of riches that represents the symphonic scene across the remainder of the UK.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | Charlotte Gardner
Perhaps it was more by chance than design that major works by Shostakovich, whose 50th anniversary of his death occurs this year, featured prominently two nights running as Renaud Capuçon’s Festival de Pâques entered its final weekend. Either way, following a Thursday night Tenth Symphony from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Friday night saw Gautier Capuçon join forces with Pierre Bleuse to perform the First Cello Concerto, completed in 1959 for Mstislav Rostropovich.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | Charlotte Gardner
Enticement, intrigue, gauntlet-laying, drama… not every concert programme has these qualities in such sizzling abundance as that currently being toured by Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | Charlotte Gardner
Is it even possible to propose a more glitzily glamorous-sounding event than the InClassica International Music Festival in Dubai? Always a vibrant-sounding mix of rising and major international soloist talent, which for the current 2025 edition includes violinist Maxim Vengerov, pianists Mikhail Pletnev and Denis Kozhukhin, and cellist Gautier Capuçon.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | Charlotte Gardner
Is it even possible to propose a more glitzily glamorous-sounding event than the InClassica International Music Festival in Dubai? Always a vibrant-sounding mix of rising and major international soloist talent, which for the current 2025 edition includes violinist Maxim Vengerov, pianists Mikhail Pletnev and Denis Kozhukhin, and cellist Gautier Capuçon.
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Up now on @bachtrack: my reviews from the magnificent @FestivalPaques including an unforgettable Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 from Gautier Capuçon, Pierre Bleuse and the Orchestre du Festival Pablo Casals ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ https://t.co/uNvLRliKRw

Swings and roundabouts in Dubai: InClassica 2025. My review for @bachtrack https://t.co/do1TIQRj87 via @bachtrack

Newly on @bachtrack: my interview with the brilliant @GautierCapucon ahead of his LAC Lugano concert next month with artists from his Fondation Gautier Capucon. A rich chat, talking past and present. Merci Gautier 🙏🏻 https://t.co/dhgIwi1m27