Tag: London Symphony Orchestra
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Beethoven Choral Symphony: LSO at the Barbican review *****
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), London Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (chorus director), Iwona Sobotka (soprano), Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone) Barbican Hall, 12th February 2010 Not quite the Tourist’s last Beethoven fix before lockdown. A very dramatic take on various of the piano sonatas from Boris Giltburg was to follow…
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Noseda and the LSO at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Roman Simovic (violin) Barbican Hall, 9th February 2020 Prokofiev – Symphony No 1 in D major Op 25 “Classical” Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 1 Op 19 Mussorgsky arr Rimsky-Korsakov – Prelude to “Khovanshchina” Shostakovich – Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op 70 The latest all Russian instalment in…
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Christ on the Mount of Olives: LSO at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor), David Soar (bass), London Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (chorus director) Barbican Hall, 19th January 2020 Berg – Violin Concerto Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 After a somewhat disappointing take…
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LSO: Beethoven and Berg at the Barbican review ***
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) Barbican Hall, 15th January 2020 Berg – Seven Early Songs Beethoven – Symphony No 7 One of these Half Six Fix early start capers that Sir Si has introduced, a capital idea. A pairing of Berg with Beethoven. Sir Si being…
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Britten and Shostakovich: LSO at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Denis Matsuev (piano) Barbican Hall, 31st October 2019 Britten – Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from ‘Peter Grimes’ Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No 2, Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 Right if I am ever to catch up I am going tp have to be…
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The LSO and Barbara Hannigan at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Barbara Hannigan (soprano) Barbican Hall, 10th January 2019 Sibelius – Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 105 Hans Abrahamsen – let me tell you Nielsen – Symphony No 4 “Inextinguishable”, Op 29 I am pretty sure that Simon Rattle’s Sibelius cycle with the…
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Glass and Reich: LSO at the Barbican review ***
Divine Geometry: London Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, Simone Dinnerstein (piano) Barbican Hall, 29th November 2018 Charles Coleman – Drenched Charles Coleman – Bach Inspired Philip Glass – Piano Concerto No 3 Kristjan Jarvi – Too Hot to Handel Steve Reich – Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Funny one this. As…
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Ligeti, Bartok and Haydn choral works at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor), Camilla Tilling, Adele Charvet, Julien Behr, Christopher Purves, William Thomas Barbican Hall, 11th November 2018 Gyorgy Ligeti – Lontano Bela Bartok – Cantata profana Haydn – Nelson Mass Three composers I like. Three works I did not know. A slightly earlier start.…
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LSO at the Barbican: Kodaly, McMillan and Shostakovich review ***
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Peter Moore (trombone) Barbican Hall, 1st November 2018 Zoltan Kodaly – Dances of Galanta James MacMillan – Trombone Concerto Dmitry Shostakovitch – Symphony No 4 Now it might be the fact that I was a bit poorly for this performance that accounts for this…
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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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