| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Feb-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sir Roger Norrington and Jeremy Denk Take Command of the Stage at Carnegie Hall |
Dennis Callahan.jpg) The Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall is enough to catch anyone’s breath. But it wasn’t the grandeur of the hall that struck me; it was the fact that the conductor’s podium was missing from the stage. A bold statement: it was clear Sir Roger Norrington was going to conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke’s his own way.
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| 16-Sep-2011 Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR): Henri le Boeuf Concert Hall | Bostridge brings Britten to Brussels |
 The poetry of Arthur Rimbaud was, to borrow a phrase from the 1960s, "way out there." His 1870s collection Les Illuminations inspired Benjamin Britten, who set a selection of the poems to music: the words are surreal, bizarre, sometimes erotic, always onomatopoeic and packed with interesting sounds. Britten's music brilliantly builds upon and amplifies Rimbaud's rhythms, phrasing and imagery, producing a potent and fascinating. It's an awful pun, but it's fair to say that Britten's music illuminates Rimbaud's poetry.
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| 25-Jul-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 14: Revelatory insights |
 Mahler's Ninth Symphony – his last complete work in the genre – was written in 1908-9, against a backdrop of considerable personal tragedy and uncertainty. In 1907 he lost his eldest daughter, Maria, to scarlet fever, only to be followed by an anti-Semitic coup forcing him out of his job as artistic director at the Vienna Court Opera, and to receive the diagnosis of the heart condition that would kill him in 1911.Read full review... | |
| 23-Apr-2011 NHK Hall | Norrington plays Mahler, they both won |
| This was without a doubt the best performance of Mahler's First Symphony.
Norrington's humor comes through and complements his superb musicianship.
The First often gets bogged down, but this performance was bright and always
exciting giving the instrumentalists enough room to show their skills... and
what skills.I have no doubt that the NHK Symphony is the greatest orchestra
at this time.I could go on and on about the French horns, and the..... It was
a delight. The Blumine was lovely. I had never heard of it and was amused to Read full review... | |
