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2023-10-06 13:00:54
CD Review | Archora / Aiōn (Solo Luminus, 2023)
Archora / Aiōn Anna Thorvaldsdottir, composer; Iceland Symphony Orchestra with Eva Ollikainen, conductor Solo Luminus, 2023 Contemporary Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir doesn’t aim to simply create beautiful symphonic music, she aims to strike fear into the hearts of her listeners. The first track on her latest album, Archora / Aiōn, is a 20-minute masterwork of [...]
2023-07-20 03:30:00
[…] it moves along, one of those works that immediately invites repeat listening for both pleasure and understanding. The program concludes with the three-movement Chamber Symphony. The movements are played without a break, the overall progression being slow-fast-slow, but of course the end product is more nuanced than that. It is a fascinating work, and the transparency of sound captured by the BIS engineering team offers listeners a true luxury listening experience.Thorvaldsdottir: Archora; Aiōn. Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eva Ollikainen. Sono Luminus DSL-92268 We have reviewed a variety of music by the Icelandic Anna Thorvaldsdottir (b. 1977) previously at Classical Candor, including music for piano (reviewed here), a string quartet (reviewed here), and a work for orchestra, (reviewed here). On two of those three releases, all of which are on the Sono Luminus label, her compositions are included along with those of other composers; only for Enigma, her string quartet, is she the sole composer represented. However, […]
2023-07-02 16:10:00
LA Philharmonic on the Air
[…] DATE: May 28, 2023WFMT RELEASE: August 29, 2023RECORD DATES: April 28 & 29, 2023 Los Angeles PhilharmonicElim Chan, conductorLeila Josefowicz, violin Clarice ASSAD new overture(world premiere, LA Phil commission)Thomas ADÉS Violin Concerto,“Concentric Paths”TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5KUSC AIR DATE: June 4, 2023WFMT RELEASE: September 5, 2023RECORD DATES: May 6 & 7, 2023 Los Angeles PhilharmonicPhilippe Jordan, conductorMartin Chalifour, violin DVOŘÁK Violin ConcertoBRUCKNER Symphony No. 7KUSC AIR DATE: June 11, 2023WFMT RELEASE: September 12, 2023RECORD DATES: May 11 & 13, 2023 Los Angeles PhilharmonicEva Ollikainen, conductorPierre-Laurent Aimard, piano BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4Anna THORVALDSDÓTTIR Archora(U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission)STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier SuiteKUSC AIR DATE: June 18, 2023WFMT RELEASE: September 19, 2023RECORD DATES: May 25 & 27, 2023 Los Angeles PhilharmonicGustavo Dudamel, conductorGabriel Cabezas, cello Ellen REID West Coast Sky Eternal(world premiere, LA Phil commission)Gabriella SMITH Lost Coast(world premiere, LA Phil commission)BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 KUSC AIR DATE: June 25, 2023WFMT RELEASE: September 26, 2023RECORD DATES: June 3 & 4, 2023 Los Angeles PhilharmonicGustavo Dudamel, conductorMitsuko Uchida, pianoMOZART Overture to The […]
2022-10-17 08:21:00
Review of BBC Philharmonic 'centennial' concert
Eva Ollikainen conducting the BBC PhilharmonicCalculating the age of an orchestra is a funny business. You might think that continuous existence as a group who played together under the same name, with slow membership changes over time, would be definitive. By that standard the BBC Philharmonic is still quite young. Even allowing for changes of name (via the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and the preceding BBC Northern Orchestra), but looking for its existence as a body of players on full-time contracts, you can’t go before 1942, or, allowing for almost universal freelance orchestra membership in earlier times, only back to 1934, when its players were basically those of the Hallé anyway (and also appeared as the Liverpool Philharmonic). Before that there was a BBC Nonette, although attempts had been made in 1930 to establish something bigger. So how do we get the idea that the orchestra’s life stems from the 2ZY […]
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