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2017-08-13 15:47:00
Mahler 10 Schubert Dausgaard BBC SSO Prom
Thomas Dausgaard (Credit: Thomas Grøndahl)Thomas Dausgaard, new Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with two Unfinished symphonies, Schubert Symphony no 8 Unvollende, and Mahler Symphony no 10. Uncompleted symphonies always fascinate because they open out tantalizing prospects. This Prom was interesting because it focused on possibilities. Since we'll never know how the symphonies might have been completed, we listen differently, keeping things open-ended. Though neither Dausgaard nor the BBC SSO are new to the Proms, it was their first Prom together in this new season. Interesting potential, there, too. Dausgaard's less of a showman than Runnicles was, closer, perhaps to Ilan Volkov who was (and is) a thinker, something to value in these times. Unfinished symphonies help us focus on the music, and on the composer. The curse of a review system is that performances are judged by the number of […]
2016-02-18 19:45:05
Eriksmoen/Cemin (Alpha)Rising soprano Mari Eriksmoen has chosen her repertoire for this disc well, even if, at only 47 minutes, she has been a bit stingy with it. Her selection of nine songs by Hugo Wolf emphasises a sense of mischief, and the recording captures well the crystalline yet supple quality of her voice and her direct, communicative way with text. Her Strauss selection includes three of the Ophelia Songs, which she makes sound at once confiding and otherworldly, Alphonse Cemin offering sensitive, mercurial support from the piano. Eriksmoen is even more persuasive in her native Norwegian. Five songs by Grieg find her relishing each word – A Bird’s Song sounds especially poised and elegant – but the disc’s real discoveries, at least for non-Norwegians, are five songs by Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, a friend of Grieg and a prolific and imaginative composer herself. Setting childlike, nature-inspired poetry to music, these are vivid little […]
2014-12-03 03:37:43
[…] only five double basses) made a bold sound in the grandiose finale. There were a few blips (scattered pizzicati near the end of the third movement) but the atmosphere was palpable. It all sounded Scandinavian, or perhaps Canadian. As the energetic maestro pointed out in his introductory comments, there is a connection between these parts of the world. In the first half we heard a personable account of Grieg’s strings-only Holberg Suite and Launy Grøndahl’s Trombone Concerto with OM principal Patrice Richer. I am not sure what kind of performance could redeem the finale (double speed would be too much to ask) but Richer conveyed the swagger of the first movement and the lyrical melancholy of the second. The concert will be broadcast by Radio-Canada on Dec. 8. *** This was the orchestra that made the first classical video, as Montreal Bach Festival artistic director Alexandra Scheibler […]
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