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Erica Jeal

April 2025

  • Yunchan Lim performs Bach's Goldberg Variations at Wigmore Hall, London.

    Yunchan Lim review – young pianist’s Bach dazzles and intrigues

    In the Korean musician’s first UK performance of the Goldberg Variations his playing felt simultaneously spontaneous and impeccably thought throug

March 2025

  • Head and shoulders shot of Errollyn Wallen.

    Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works album review – momentum and drive from the Master of the King’s Music

    Dating from 2000 to 2023, referencing folk dance, spirituals and house music and including works for voices, there’s real of variety and quality here
  • Composer Florence Price.

    Dvořák and Price String Quintets album review – a pairing of passion and sparkle

    Dvořák’s Quintet No 2 in A major is full of charm, while Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A minor is fleet of foot; this dream-team of chamber music makes them an excellent match

    • Alexandros Kapelis/Berliner Barock Solisten review – ravishing period immersion in Bach’s keyboard concertos

    • Nash Ensemble at 60 review – world premieres and evocative old favourites

    • Levit/Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – edgy Prokofiev baffles and compels

February 2025

  • Renaud Capuçon.

    Sibelius and Barber: Violin Concertos album review – Renaud Capuçon’s golden-toned glamour

    The violinist’s golden-toned playing and meaty interpretations are matched by an orchestra that packs plenty of punch under Daniel Harding
  • Abel Selaocoe Press publicity portrait

    Abel Selaocoe: Hymns of Bantu album review – a joyous and indivisible blend of styles

    Cellist and vocalist Selaocoe’s new album is easy to enjoy with its seamless mix of throat singing, Bach, a southern African hymn and elements of jazz

    • Commemorating Shostakovich review – vivid and nervy chamber music with Kissin a sensitive voice

    • The Marriage of Figaro review – Mozart as hotel farce is sparky but scrappy

    • BBCSO/Biss/Hrůša review – radiance, juggernaut power and soulfulness

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

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

    This distinctive collection brings cabaret, country dances and a streak of melancholy to bear
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