Charlotte Gardner

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 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ bachtrack.com/review-bleuse-…

Swings and roundabouts in Dubai: InClassica 2025. My review for @bachtrack bachtrack.com/feature-inclas… 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 🙏🏻 bachtrack.com/interview-gaut…

My review for @bachtrack of Wednesday night at the RFH @southbankcentre from the @LPOrchestra. 5 stars. bachtrack.com/22/296/view/28…

My review for @bachtrack of the AAM’s Messiah this past Monday…. bachtrack.com/review-messiah…

Drumroll…. I have joined Team @bachtrack ;) What a concert with which to begin! Perfectly weighted conversation: Szeps-Znaider, Capucon and Buchbinder play Schubert bachtrack.com/review-buchbin… via @bachtrack

I had been meaning to try my hand at Îles Flottantes for years, but it needed a day midway through a holiday when a cookery disaster and a gazillion dirty pans didn’t matter. Anyway, here they are! The custard didn’t curdle and my caramel worked first time.

Having a baby shouldn’t mean your touring career grinds to a halt. @chargard2 talks to the performing parents who bring their child along for the ride classical-music.uk/features/artic…

@PaulgThomas84 @SignumRecords @MaryCBevan @nickythespence @jpianomiddleton @BourletKim My first work experience was on Noel's House Party. Top show! And this is a top album cover. Clearly I have to give it a spin...

Am confused as to why @SignumRecords didn't simply call this album 'Noel's House Party', especially as it would have meant they could have incorporated a beloved TV character on the cover like below... @MaryCBevan @nickythespence @jpianomiddleton @BourletKim

@deeplyclassical @MahanEsfahani @MichalaPetri @hillenet @GramophoneMag Isn't it just?

@chargard2 @MahanEsfahani @MichalaPetri @hillenet @GramophoneMag This is ace!

Huge congrats to @MahanEsfahani @MichalaPetri @hillenet on being nominated for Best Baroque Album in the 2024 International Classical Music Awards! I absolutely love this album. Here's what I said in @GramophoneMag ... gramophone.co.uk/review/corelli…

How to brighten up yet another wet day… Just giving this a first spin in preparation for a Gramophone review, and it’s wonderful stuff.

@delphianrecords @LSHMWAH @deeplyclassical @SolemQuartet Funnily, it was also school, early 1990s, where I first experienced this bubbling orange food nirvana.

@chargard2 @LSHMWAH @deeplyclassical @SolemQuartet That sounds too familiar to an 'American Bean Pie', favoured FAR too fondly by a primary school chef on the West Coast of Scotland circa 1993...

Happy 80th birthday to Joni Mitchell! This beautiful arrangement of "Both Sides Now" for string quartet, played by @SolemQuartet, is on their wonderful new @delphianrecords album "Painted Light". youtu.be/aj3w6v0WV0U?si…

@delphianrecords @LSHMWAH @deeplyclassical @SolemQuartet 😂😂😂 Well if we're going there, then I'd like to add that the same is true for baked bean lasagne.

@LSHMWAH @chargard2 @deeplyclassical @SolemQuartet Like slow cooking pork in Irn Bru - there are some revelations which never leave you 💖

The sun has got his hat on today in Geneva (hip-hip-hip-hooray…)

What lies beneath… Fifteenth century choir stalls in Geneva’s beautiful St Pierre Cathedral. How I love this city! I’m back presenting at the Concours de Genève. This morning was fascinating, interviewing string quartet semifinalists on their personal artistic projects.

@BEliasson2 As it happens, that’s what I did! His Kreutzer transcription is interesting (the good sort of interesting)

@chargard2 Beethoven !!

VERY nice post day. Now which first…?

My Friday night, after a fascinating afternoon watching @QuatuorEbene rehearse. Und ja, ich bin in Deutschland ;)