Tag: London Symphony Orchestra
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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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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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Twentieth Century Masters: LSO at the Barbican review ****
London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Isabelle Faust Barbican Hall, 14th January 2018 Janacek – Overture: From the House of the Dead Elliott Carter – Instances Berg – Violin Concerto Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra Back to the Barbican for another round with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO, though this…
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Rameau to Mahler: LSO at the Barbican review ***
London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kozena Barbican Hall, 11th January 2017 Schubert – Symphony No 8 Unfinished Mahler – Ruckert Lieder Handel – Three Arias Rameau – Les Boreades Suite Now I admit I hummed and harred about this particular gig. I am as excited as the next person…
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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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London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review ****
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir Mark Elder, London Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall, 7th May 2017 Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov – Prelude to Khovanshchina Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 Shostakovich – Symphony No.15 in A major Op.141 Who’d be a Russian composer eh. Mussorgsky drinks himself to death at 42…