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2023-04-28 08:13:31
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2022-09-25 10:37:00
LPO/Gardner - Schoenberg, Gurrelieder, 24 September 2022
Royal Festival HallWaldemar – David Butt Philip Tove – Lise Lindstrom Wood-dove – Karen Cargill Klaus-Narr – Robert Murray Peasant – James Creswell Speaker – Alex Jennings London Philharmonic Choir (chorus director: Neville Creed)London Symphony Chorus (chorus director: Simon Halsey)London Philharmonic OrchestraEdward Gardner (conductor)Image: London Philharmonic OrchestraThe pandemic is not over. But I remember thinking, when some sort of minimal concert life was intermittently starting up again—socially distanced concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields with a maximum audience of thirty, the first and second series of Spotlight Chamber Concerts at St John’s Waterloo, and so on—what resumption of a full range of musical life would entail for me. I chose three examples, which have remained in my mind ever since: a large-scale work by Richard Strauss, a full staging of Die Meistersinger, and a performance of Gurrelieder. Strauss came a little while ago, in a performance of the Alpine Symphony—though I await a […]
2022-09-07 17:47:00
Royal Albert HallGeorge Walker: Lilacs Beethoven: Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 Nicole Cabell (soprano)Raehann Bryce-Davis (mezzo-soprano)Zwakele Tshabalala (tenor)Ryan Speedo Green (baritone)Chineke! Voices (chorus master: Simon Halsey)Chineke! OrchestraKevin John Edusei (conductor) Very much a concert of two (unequal) halves, I am afraid. The first Proms performance of George Walker’s 1995 Lilacspromised and delivered much. However, the following performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, though loudly acclaimed by much of the audience, exposed yet another contemporary conductor’s inability or unwillingness to do much more than skate over and harry this unluckiest of scores. Walker’s piece, for voice (Nicole Cabell) and orchestra offered many connections, even correspondences, with other music. What music, after all, does not? It could never, however, be reduced to those correspondences, speaking very much with its own voice and in its own way: direct yet rich, purposeful, yet (unlike poor Beethoven) with plenty of space. The opening horn […]
2022-03-04 16:15:00
Barbican Hall The Creation (sung in English)Lucy Crowe (soprano)Andrew Staples (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone) London Symphony Chorus (chorus director: Simon Halsey) London Symphony Orchestra Harry Christophers (conductor)Forty years ago to the day, the Barbican Centre opened its doors to the concert-, theatre-, and exhibition-going public. The London Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Claudio Abbado offered the Overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto (soloist: Vladimir Ashkenazy), Elgar’s Cello Concerto (soloist: Yo-Yo Ma), and Ravel’s La Valse. The current LSO Music Director, Sir Simon Rattle, had chosen his longstanding favourite—and mine—Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation, for this celebratory concert, but alas the aftermath of surgery meant that he ceded his place at a late stage to Harry Christophers. I say ‘alas’ for Rattle’s sake, since he would doubtless have loved to be there, but Christophers directed a collegial, eminently musical account of this most life-affirming of works, dedicated by the orchestra […]
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