Welcome to our index of live performance reviews. Reviews now normally appear here within a few days of the concert concerned, with highlights appearing in the next issue of The Organ. To have your concert or performance reviewed, contact performance@theorganmag.com. For recording and book reviews, browse our reviews index. For forthcoming organ concerts, see our United Kingdom organ Events and Concerts guide.

Current Performance Reviews

• Bach: St Matthew Passion
  22nd March, The Sage, Gateshead
• Falstaff
  13th March, WNO, Birmingham Hippodrome
• Lucia di Lammermoor
  16th February, ENO
• Turn Of The Screw
  26th November, ENO
• Photoperative
  17th November, Glyndebourne
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
  9th November, Royal Festival Hall, London
• Aida
  8th November, ENO
• Vasari Singers
  23rd October, St Martin-in-the-Fields
• Event
  17th October, Birmingham Town Hall
• BBC Proms 66/67
  3rd September
• BBC Prom 46
  18th August
• Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  27th July, Glyndebourne
• BBC Prom 14
  23rd July
• BBC Prom 11
  21st July
• Nigel Ogden/Kerry Beaumont/David Flood
  9th/16th/23rd July, All Saints, Hastings
• BBC Prom
  7th July
• Händel en France
• Jean Guillou
  19th June, Paris and 4th July, London
• Philip Glass: Satyagraha
  5th April, ENO
• The People's Passion
  2nd April, Queen Elizabeth Hall
• Elijah - Sussex Chorus
  4th March, Worth Abbey Church
• Alison Balsom, Trumpet, David Goode, Organ
  4th March, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
• Daniel Roth
  23rd February, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
• Handel and His World - Andrew Benson-Wilson
  18th February, St Lawrence, Canons Park
• Handel: Agrippina
  5th February, ENO
• Tippett & Britten, Crouch End Festival Chorus
  20th January, Barbican
• The King’s Consort
  19th January, Cadogan Hall
• Catherine Ennis
  27th November, Queen Elizabeth Hall
• Royal Hospital Chelsea
  15th November, Royal Hospital Chelsea
• Grieg – Piano Concerto, Holst – The Planets
  12th November, Barbican
• WNO Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
  11th November, Birmingham Hippodrome
• WNO Monteverdi: The Return of Ulysses
  17th October, Apollo Theatre, Oxford
• Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
  Royal Albert Hall, London

Archive Performance Reviews

• Handel's Messiah
  10th May 2006, Royal Albert Hall, London
• Montiverdi's Orfeo
  15th April 2006, London Coliseum
• Bach's St John Passion
  11th April 2006, Hereford Cathedral
  14th April 2006, St George's, Hanover Square, London
• Handel's Samson
  1st April 2006, St John, Smith Square, London
• Poulenc, Gounod and Vaughan Williams with Peter Siepmann and the Nottingham University Sinfonia
  19th March 2006, University of Nottingham
• John Keys in recital
  18th March 2006, St Helen's, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
• Handel's Hercules
  15th March 2006, Barbican Theatre, London
• WNO sing Handel's Jephtha and Wagner's Flying Dutchman
  1st and 2nd March 2006, Wales Millennium Centre
• Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the LSO
  21st February 2006, Barbican Hall, London
• Elgar's Dream of Gerontius
  18th February 2006, St Albans Abbey
• Handel's Rodelinda with Il Compleso Barocco
  1st February 2006, Barbican Hall, London
• Mozart piano music with the Rautio Trio
  26th January 2006, St Martin in the Fields, London
• Crouch End Festival Chorus at the Barbican
  22nd January 2006, Barbican Hall, London
• ENO's Billy Budd
  3rd December 2005, London Coliseum
• WNO's Barber of Seville and Merry Widow
  29th and 30th November 2005, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
• Beethoven at the Barbican Hall
  27th and 22nd November 2005, London
• Coram Boy - Handel and the Foundling Hospital
  23rd November 2005, Royal National Theatre, London
• Handel's Xerxes at the ENO
  19th November 2005, London Coliseum
• Handel's Theodora with the Buxton Musical Society
  13th November 2005, St John’s Church, Buxton
• Ladies First with Anne Marsden Thomas
  9th November 2005, Notre Dame de France, London
• 9th International Competition Xavier Darasse
  September/October, Toulouse
• Verdi's Don Carlos with the WNO
  17th September 2005, Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff
• ENO's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  16th September 2005, London Coliseum
• Jonathan Dove's Flight
  18th August 2005, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
• Handel's Giulio Cesare
  28th July 2005, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
• Garsington 2005
  6th, 7th and 8th July, Garsington Manor, Oxford
• Johann Christian Bach's Temistocle
  26th June 2005, Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse
• Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin
  8th June 2005, Notre Dame de France, Leicester Square, London
• Philip Glass's Orphee
  27th May 2005, The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
• Organ Fireworks with David Goode
  24th May 2005, Birmingham Symphony Hall
• Médée de Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  19th May 2005, Salle Gaveau, Paris
• Handel's Jephtha with the ENO
  18th April 2005, London Coliseum
• Roy Massey celebrates Hereford's restoration
  7th May 2005, Hereford Cathedral
• Berlioz' Te Deum conducted by David Temple
  4th May 2005, Royal Festival Hall
• Montiverdi's Poppea with the Opéra National du Rhin
  30th April 2005, Strasbourg
• Handel's Messiah with the Hastings Philharmonic Choir
  9th April 2005, St Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings
• ENO's Twilight of the Gods
  2nd April 2005, London Coliseum
• Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Elgar Chorale
  19th March 2005, Worcester Cathedral
• Mendelssohn's Elijah in Eastbourne
  12th March 2005, St Saviour's, Eastbourne
• La Traviata and Wozzeck with the WNO
  18th February 2005, Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff
• Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the London Chorus, New London Orchestra and Ronald Corp
  5th February 2005, Barbican, London
• Bach's Mass in B Minor with David Hill and the Bach Choir
  2nd February 2005, Royal Festival Hall
• Naji Hakim inaugurates Selwyn College's new Létourneau
  30th January 2005, Selwyn College, Cambridge
• Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the ENO
  21st January 2005, London Coliseum
• Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Hertfordshire Chorus and David Temple
  15th January 2005
• Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Royal Festival Hall
  7th December 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London
• Classic film Napoleon at the Royal Festival Hall
  5th December 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London
• ENO's new production of Pirates of Penzance
  4th December 2004, London Coliseum
• Lionel Rogg in discussion and recital
  2nd December 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London
• Handel's Semele by English National Opera
  1st December 2004, London Coliseum
• Dame Gillian Weir at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  29th November 2004, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
• Britten's War Requiem with the CBSO
  13th November 2004, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
• Margaret Phillips at St. Martin with St. Peter, London Road, Worcester
  13th November 2004, Worcester
• ENO's Siegfried
  6th November 2004, London Coliseum
• Rameau: Les Paladins
  19th October 2004, Barbican Theatre, London
• Elgar: With Proud Thanksgiving and The Dream of Gerontius
  6th October 2004, South Bank Centre, London
• 2004 Proms - Brian Hick overviews the series
  Royal Albert Hall, London
• 2004 Presteigne Festival - reviews by David Hart and Christopher Morley.
  Presteigne, Wales