| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Nov-2012 Bridgewater Hall | BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena: Bach and Bruckner 9 |
 Few concert programmes can feature such different works based on the same inspiration, but the BBC Philharmonic managed the intricacies of Bach and the grandeur of Bruckner with great success. The biggest tragedy of the evening was the audience: the whole top tier of seating was closed, and the stalls were barely half full.
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| 7-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 33: MacMillan's new Credo, framed by Wagner and Bruckner |
 I would say a little over three quarters of the seats in the Royal Albert Hall were full for Prom 33, featuring Juanjo Mena, the BBC Philharmonic and several northern choirs, and that whilst I’ve seen the arena busier than it was, it was still fairly tightly packed. The haunting opening solo line of Wagner’s prelude to Tristan und Isolde crept into our consciousness out of the silence with its instinctively straight quality and it stayed in that timbre until the cellos’ theme opened up into a warmer vibrato.Read full review... | |
