Category classical

REVIEW: Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley

Reading Time: 2 minutesFour Mondays running now, Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's has now become a standing appointment for me. Classical Mondays sits a little oddly against the club's usual late-night jazz pulse but never fails to shine. 

Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley have been playing together since 2017, almost a decade of creating an authentic and smooth dynamic. They opened with Mozart's Horn Quintet in E-flat, reworked for their line-up which almost became a quiet tribute, as we learnt Mozart himself once lodged across Firth Street during his London years.

REVIEW: Mahler’s First By Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutesMahler’s therapy session, staged first and then played flawlessly from memory A cuckoo call, and a timpanist who fluffed his cue in front of several thousand people – Aurora Orchestra’s Mahler’s First By Heart had all the…