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November 29, 2024 Nicholas Daniel conducts Serenade to Music at Wigmore Hall
November 28, 2024 CD Review: Schumann Works for Oboe and Piano (Yorkshire Times)
October 31, 2024 CD review: Schumann works for oboe and piano (BBC Music Magazine)
September 26, 2024 CD review: Schumann works for oboe and piano (Classical Music Daily)
August 29, 2024 CD Review: Schumann works for oboe and piano (The Guardian)
June 27, 2024 Review: At the Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool (Bachtrack)
May 30, 2024 Reviews: Maderna Oboe Concerto no.3 – Nicholas Daniel with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins
April 30, 2024 Goldscheider, Spence, Britten Sinfonia, Milton Court review – heroic evening songs and a jolly horn ramble
February 28, 2024 Outi Tarkiainen cor anglais concerto – CD review
January 31, 2024 Southbank Sinfonia & Britten Sinfonia combine under Nicholas Daniel at St John’s Smith Square

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop/Barbican Hall, Friday 4 December 2015

Judith Bingham, The Angel of Mons

‘The solo line, superbly played by Nicholas Daniel, unwinds against a series of thick string dissonances that eventually prove immovable: the divine vision fades and war goes on.’

Read the full review online