Topic: Bbc Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 but evoking the failed insurrection of 1905, rarely finds its way onto concert programmes.. Its long passages of brooding introspection are far from audience-friendly but in his fiercely ...
This was, in many respects, a great occasion, something which has probably not been said of a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert for a long time. The wonderfully long programme consisted of works by Mendelssohn and Brahms - classicists in a Romantic world, in ...
The BBC has regularly promoted Matthias Pintscher's music over the past five years, and to begin the second of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's new season of Barbican concerts, Kazushi Ono conducted the world premiere of Pintscher's Pourquoi l'Azur ...
Leaving aside the klaxons, the tropical topees and the inflatable bananas, there was a solid musical core to Saturday's Last Night of the Proms, which brought an outstanding season to a close. It was an apt choice - the composer's precursor ...
A short, mighty cataclysm, with explosive bass drum, tam tams and cymbal, erupts at the climax of George Benjamin's Ringed by the Flat Horizon. Yet Benjamin is always driven by harmonic imperative, never literal illustration. The BBCSO, conducted by him, showed ...
How cheering to have been one of the people in the crowded Albert Hall enjoying their first live encounter with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, its 134th performance at the Proms. The challenge to make this impossibly famous score fresh is harder than ...
Classical music lovers in London should mark their calendars for the BBC Proms Out + About concert on Thursday, June 26. The jam-packed schedule includes many of the major landmarks of London, showcasing the capital as well as the musicians who make up ...
This year sadly marked the last of the BBC weekends devoted each January to a major contemporary composer. Fifty works by Judith Weir were heard this weekend in seven major concerts and a raft of fringe events including folk fiddling in the ...
BBCSO/Robertson ***. "Thank you for holding," said the irritating mechanised voice in Brett Dean's Vexations and Devotion, adding that our holding was important to them, and finally embarking on a hilarious philosophical disquisition on different types of holding. The texts of ...
It's quite something to have members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra filing into the auditorium when they could be getting an early train home. The draw was the young German violinist Julia Fischer in the Beethoven Concerto and she brought to ...
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BBC Symphony Orchestra Season 2011-12
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra at 80
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