Tag: Barbican Hall
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BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review ****
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Martin Frost (clarinet) Barbican Hall, 17th October 2017 Dmitry Shostakovich – Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op 70 Aaron Copland – Clarinet Concerto Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No 6 in E flat major Op 111 Vikings, stave churches, Celsius, Bohr, Angstrom, Ibsen,…
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Britten’s Spring Symphony from the LSO at the Barbican review ***
LSO, LSO Chorus, Tiffin Choirs, Sir Simon Rattle, Philip Cobb (trumpet), Gabor Tarkovi (trumpet), Elizabeth Watts, (soprano) Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor) Barbican Hall, 17th September 2018 Harrison Birtwhistle – Donum Simoni MMXVIII Gustav Holst – Egdon Heath Mark-Anthony Turnage – Dispelling the Fears Benjamin Britten – Spring Symphony…
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LSO play Ravel and Mussorgsky at the Barbican review ***
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Yefim Bronfman (piano) Barbican Hall, 3rd June 2018 Ravel – Rapsodie Espagnole Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 3 Mussorgsky arranged Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition It has been a few years since I have heard Pictures at an Exhibition live, and I have thoroughly…
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Nicola Benedetti and the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican review ****
Academy of Ancient Music, Nicola Benedetti (violin), Richard Egarr (director and harpsichord) Barbican Hall, 31st May 2018 Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin in D major RV 208 “Il Grosso Mogul” Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Harpsichord RV 780 Mystery Composer – Sinfonia in D first movement Georg Philipp Telemann…
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Beethoven symphony cycle from Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ades at the Barbican review *****
Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades (conductor), Nicholas Hodges (piano), Joshua Bloom (bass) Barbican Hall, 22nd and 24th May 2018 Beethoven – Symphony No 4 in B flat major Op 60 Gerard Barry – Piano Concerto Beethoven – Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 Gerard Barry – The Conquest of…
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Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Barbican Hall review ***
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, Camilla Tilling (soprano), Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone) Barbican Hall, 20th May 2018 Beethoven – Missa Solemnis Hard to believe that the scruffy scrawl above is from the hand of the greatest ever composer in one of…
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Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican review ***/***
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Barbican Hall, 2nd May and 4th May 2018 Esa-Pekka Salonen – Pollux Edgar Varese – Ameriques Shostakovich – Symphony No 5 Beethoven – Symphony No 9 “Choral” Canny students of architecture will realise that the pic above is not of the Barbican. The…
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Beethoven and Shostakovich from the LSO at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Barbican Hall, 8th April 2018 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 Shostakovich – Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65 I could be imagining it but the LSO seems to be notching up a gear, from its…
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BBC Symphony Orchestra and Vilde Frang at the Barbican Hall review ****
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Vilde Frang (violin) Barbican Hall, 21st March 2018 Anna Clyne – This Midnight Hour Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto, Op 15 Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No 6 in F major “Pastoral”, Op 68 The Violin Concerto is one of those Britten pieces that takes…
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review *****
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Yefim Bronfman (piano) Barbican Hall, 24th November 2017 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 Prokofiev – Symphony No 5 Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony, Chicago Symphony. These are the orchestras usually held up as the world’s best. The smart money though also…
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Stockhausen’s Stimmung at the Barbican ****
Singcircle Barbican Hall, 20th November 2017 Jacqueline Barron – soprano Zoe Freedman – soprano Heather Cairncross – mezzo-soprano Guy Elliott – tenor Angus Smith – tenor Gregory Rose – bass/director Robert Henke – laser artist Kathinka Pasveer – sound projection Stephen Montague – assistant sound projection Reinhard Klose – sound…
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Stravinsky from Rattle and the LSO at the Barbican review *****
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle Barbican Hall, 24th September 2017 Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird (original ballet) Igor Stravinsky – Petrushka (1947 version) Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring So here is is. The second coming. Sir Simon Rattle kicks off his tenure at the helm of the…
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