Mahler
Classical Music CDs Round-Up 6Saturday, 20 March 2010
This month’s reviews have a heavy late-romantic bias: chamber music by Dvořák, fascinating and idiosyncratic Mahler from Bernstein and Tennstedt, and some superb recordings of Bruckner, Sibelius and Rachmaninov (or Rachmaninoff, as Gianandrea Noseda... Read more... |
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jansons, RFHSaturday, 06 March 2010
There was I, up to that point, very grateful to be hearing so fresh an approach to a heavyweight, admiring the way the crack Bavarian players sang and danced in every line that so often stays numb until the mechanics of horror let rip, but wondering... Read more... |
Philharmonia Orchestra, Eliahu Inbal, RFHThursday, 11 February 2010
Clown trousers, comedy tie, half a head of candy floss hair and a circus-performer's grin received us last night from the podium. Was that Krusty the Clown conducting Mahler's Resurrection Symphony? No, it was Eliahu Inbal, one of the funniest-... Read more... |
London Sinfonietta, George Benjamin, QEHMonday, 08 February 2010
To find a single completely successful piece in a contemporary music programme is rare enough. The sieve of time has yet to separate the wheat from the chaff. But to find complete satisfaction in all five pieces programmed, and for all five pieces... Read more... |
Royal Concertgebouw, Jansons, BarbicanMonday, 14 December 2009
There’s simply no orchestral sound quite like it. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra had barely done a bar of Bedřich Smetana’s overture to The Bartered Bride before I found myself grinning like a fool. It was as if I had stepped off a plane and... Read more... |
LSO/Tilson Thomas, Goerne, Barbican HallSunday, 08 November 2009
Michael Tilson Thomas’s association with the London Symphony Orchestra runs deep - he was its principal conductor for eight years, and for his latest return to his old band last night the American programmed works that, while they had a Viennese... Read more... |
Haitink, LSO, BarbicanSunday, 11 October 2009Over the past few years, Haitink’s London performances - and last night's was no different - have slowly but consistently chipped away at the conventional wisdom that conductors mature with age and reach an apex of musical understanding some... Read more... |
The Last Night of the Proms, Connolly, Balsom, BBCSO, RobertsonSunday, 13 September 2009
The height of naffness? The best of British? A bit of fun? Opinions always splinter over the Last Night of the Proms. The received wisdom is that, if you have a brain or any genuine care for music, you’re not really meant to enjoy the Last Night;... Read more... |
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