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| 26-Apr-2013 St John's Church, Hagley | The silver chain of sound with Orchestra of the Swan and Tamsin Waley-Cohen | Katherine Dixson, katherinedixson.co.uk |
 David Curtis displayed his usual deceptively effortless ease on the podium. Perhaps this felt like a handy warm-up for the marathon that he would run, hard on the heels of this concert, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Orchestra of the Swan’s home territory. He’d be racing to raise funds for musical outreach work in schools, one of OOTS’s laudable trademarks, along with their championing of new and contemporary works.Read full review... | ||
| 7-Feb-2013 Howard Assembly Room | Delius, Britten and Elgar from Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe | Sam Wigglesworth |
 Delius is a composer who is often misunderstood, the English pastoralism of works like On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring hardly representative of either his cosmopolitan life or the breadth of his output. Tasmin Little has long been one of the composer’s most passionate advocates, and opened this recital with her regular duo partner Martin Roscoe with the earliest of Delius’ four violin sonatas.Read full review... | ||
| 30-Jan-2013 Cleveland Museum of Art: Atrium | The siren's call: Chanticleer inaugurates new space at Cleveland Museum of Art | Timothy Robson |
 As part of the official opening of the new Ames Family Atrium, the Cleveland Museum of Art presented the brilliant twelve-man choral ensemble Chanticleer in a sold-out late evening concert on 30 January. The new 39,000 square foot atrium, designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly is a striking public space, part of the museum’s major expansion project which will be completed at the end of 2013 after more than a decade of planning and construction.Read full review... | ||
| 20-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Philharmonia, John Wilson, Leon McCawley: 20th-century English music at the Royal Festival Hall | Julia Savage |
 C Sheila Rock.jpg) As London became a vision in white and all went quiet, the Southbank Centre was abuzz with all manner of arts-related activities. One rail replacement bus and a brisk walk behind me, I had made it to see the Philharmonia Orchestra’s matinee concert of 20th-century English music, framed around John Ireland’s Piano Concerto.
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| 17-Jan-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Springtime and the sea with Edward Gardner and the CBSO | Andrew H. King |
 The sea has been the inspiration for many concert works; Debussy’s La mer springs to mind immediately as perhaps the most popular, but in England during the first half of the 20th century nautical themes sustained an important presence. Amongst Delius’ Sea Drift, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes sits Frank Bridge’s short and splendid suite The Sea.
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| 11-Jan-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | A tour of British music: Clyne, Britten and Elgar with the BBC Symphony Orchestra | Madelaine Jones |
.jpg) Britain is a country not often historically associated with great composers, repertoire or music: apart from the occasional early music programme peppered with Purcell or production of Peter Grimes, there is a great tendency to overlook British classical music, both past and present, in favour of its Germanic and Slavic cousins.Read full review... | ||
| 19-Dec-2012 University of Leeds Great Hall | The Orchestra of Opera North sounds fresh and new in Leeds University's Great Hall | Richard Wilcocks |
 Leeds is so lucky to have virtuoso violinist David Greed still within reach, ready and available to perform as a soloist at concerts like this with the excellent orchestra of which he was the youngest leader in the country when it was formed in 1978. It was really thrilling to experience The Lark Ascending live, and to see him standing there just a few feet in front of the audience.Read full review... | ||
| 8-Dec-2012 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Jaap van Zweden shows his mettle: Mendelssohn and Elgar with the Hong Kong Philharmonic | Alan Yu, alanayu.wordpress.com |
 Although Mendelssohn and Elgar lived in different eras and composed in very different styles, a common thread runs through their works featured in Hong Kong Philharmonic’s performance on Saturday – all of them draw their inspiration from the British Isles.
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| 1-Dec-2012 St Peter's Church, Brockley | Harmony Sinfonia brings Bruckner to Brockley | Ken Ward, Editor, The Bruckner Journal |
| Muffled up in a heavy coat, scarf and gloves, your intrepid reviewer travelled through the wild heart of the East End of London, from Whitechapel on the Overground, under the Thames to the equally rough and grubby realms of south-east London, to Brockley, making his way up the hill in the wintry darkness to St Peter’s Church. What a contrast upon entering the church! All was brightness and clarity, beautiful architecture, and warmth – the very virtues that characterised the performance Lindsay Ryan elicited from Harmony Sinfonia in this very enjoyable concert.
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| 14-Oct-2012 Colston Hall | Gabetta, Sinaisky and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Colston Hall | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 A sunny Sunday afternoon at Colston Hall marked the return of the London Philharmonic Orchestra to Bristol after over a decade away. The orchestra played alongside Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta for a moving performance of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor. This was accompanied on either side by Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 1 and Jean Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2.
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| 13-Oct-2012 St John's Smith Square | Everyman's Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius at St John's Smith Square | Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade |
.jpg) Certain images of Edward Elgar appear to be too heavily ingrained in our national consciousness ever to be shaken off. He has now been entombed as an establishment figure, a privilege for which he has the Last Night of the Proms to thank. Even works such as the Enigma Variations and the Cello Concerto that are less obviously redolent of patriotic bombast can be heard as expressive vehicles for Edwardian imperialism.Read full review... | ||
| 6-Oct-2012 St George's Bristol | British in Bristol: Stephen Hough and Bristol Classical Players at St George's | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 Two encores, a virtuoso and a cracking orchestra. This concert truly celebrated the best of British music and musicians, as the first concert in St George’s “Best of British” concert season. The scene was set with an array of red, white and blue amongst the orchestra in several forms: bow ties, flags, ribbons and other accessories. The stage was built forward for this occasion with an impressively large group of instrumentalists for the Bristol Classical Players surrounding a grand piano for the internationally renowned pianist Stephen Hough.Read full review... | ||
| 1-Oct-2012 St John's Smith Square | Ignatz Waghalter: A lost Romantic worth rediscovering? | Evan Dickerson |
 In terms of programming this recital at St John’s Smith Square offered something out of the ordinary. There are not that many concerts these days where the audience is faced with an item of core repertoire, followed by some semi-neglected repertoire by a mainstream composer, a work by a totally neglected composer, and then a final flurry of instrumental fireworks.
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| 22-Sep-2012 Wigmore Hall | The Nash Ensemble: Dreamers of Dreams at the Wigmore Hall | Julia Savage |
 As I took my seat at Saturday’s concert by the Nash Ensemble, one in a series entitled “Dreamers of Dreams” put on as part of their residency at the Wigmore Hall, I wondered what I was about to let myself in for. That the Nash Ensemble had chosen to present the works of early 20th-century composers was not especially surprising – after all, they are known for unusual, inventive programming – but among the composers represented in Saturday’s concert were names such as Roger Quilter, Percy Grainger and Arthur Bliss, often regarded as second-rate.Read full review... | ||
| 8-Sep-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 76: A very special Last Night | Matthew Lynch |
 The Last Night of the Proms isn’t really a concert at all; it’s two very different concerts put on one after the other. The first is something like what we’re used to from a Prom, with big-name soloists performing alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Chorus in world premières and classic works from the repertoire. The second is more of a pops concert, featuring the same orchestra, choir and soloists, but with classic British tunes on the programme, and singing along is highly encouraged.Read full review... | ||
| 29-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 61: A festival of British music with Brabbins and the BBC Symphony | Matthew Lynch |
 The music of Herbert Howells has long been a fixture in British churches but continues to be absent from our concert halls. It’s true that much of his output, and almost all of his most popular works, are for unaccompanied choir or choir and organ, but his orchestral works include two piano concertos, a fantasia for cello and orchestra and several works for string orchestra among their number.Read full review... | ||
| 10-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 37: Elgar's The Apostles with The Hallé | Katherine Dixson, katherinedixson.co.uk |
 If you’ve never been to a grand-scale choral work at the Royal Albert Hall, I’d urge you to do so at the earliest opportunity. This wasn’t my first visit to the Proms, and I’ve experienced oratorios, requiems and passions galore in other places, but to hear hundreds of accomplished singers filling this vast circular space was new territory for me. The hall seemed made for the occasion.
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| 31-Jul-2012 Hollywood Bowl | Powerful Brahms, lithe Elgar with Bronfman, Bringuier, and the LA Phil | Ted Ayala |
 Oded Antman.jpg) Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto no. 2 and Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations. Both solidly—not to mention stolidly—popular works. Safe programming choices. Maybe too safe. Both works are well loved. Well worn, too. Think of the Brahms. Every pianist of note that has ever lived (and will ever live) has recorded and played it. Can you blame the listener if they cringe just a little at the sight of the program and groan "not again?"
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| 26-Jul-2012 Hereford Cathedral | Three Choirs Festival: Ireland, Delius and Elgar with Nardone and the Philharmonia | Andrew H. King |
 A second scorching day in Hereford at the Three Choirs Festival concluded with another excellent concert.
Before an audience that filled the cathedral to capacity, the Philharmonia Orchestra assembled on the platform and a warm welcome was given to conductor Peter Nardone.
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| 26-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 16: BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Joanna MacGregor and Ryan Wigglesworth | Julia Savage |
 As the programme put it, Prom 16 had a "distinctly watery" theme. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales took its audience on a trip to the Italian and French rivieras, with a staycation in the form of Hugh Wood's thrilling Piano Concerto. It was a challenging programme, which showed in the orchestra's playing more than once, but it was nevertheless an enjoyable experience. It should be noted that the orchestra's originally billed conductor, Thierry Fischer, was unwell, and was replaced at very short notice by conductor Ryan Wigglesworth.
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| 24-Jul-2012 Hereford Cathedral | Monarchs and mobiles with The King's Singers at the Three Choirs Festival | Katherine Dixson, katherinedixson.co.uk |
 Frequent concertgoers in our modern age will be all too aware of the irritation factor of mobile phones going off during performance. The King’s Singers, however, make a feature of the phenomenon and take it to another level. This world-class ensemble delighted a packed Hereford Cathedral, the closing concert of their 2011/12 season coinciding with the Three Choirs Festival.
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| 13-Jul-2012 Cheltenham Town Hall | Three Pieces from 1918 at the Cheltenham Music Festival | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 Red, white and blue bunting, with matching lighting, adorned the balconies of Cheltenham Town Hall, setting a patriotic scene for a concert of music from the year that World War I ended. Television presenter Julia Somerville opened the evening sat at a vintage newsdesk with her own careful research, for which she can be highly commended. She was followed by a number of well-known soloists including Katherine Gowers and Steven Isserlis for an exciting programme of works composed in 1918.
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| 13-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 1: An English theme makes for a rousing start | Laura Kate Wilson |
 The first night of the Proms was, in this year of Olympic celebrations and the Diamond Jubilee, a tribute to all things English, featuring an impressive range of singers and a (somewhat appropriate) relay team of stellar English conductors.
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| 29-Jun-2012 Concertgebouw: Main Hall | Zomerconcerten's opening night: The joy of Kuusisto | Renée Reitsma, ypgtcm.blogspot.com |
 When it comes to summertime concerts, visitors to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw are often lucky, and this year is no different: the Robeco Zomerconcerten offer a diverse and exciting program that was kicked off by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky and Pekka Kuusisto with music by Elgar, Sibelius and Tchaikovksy. Pekka Kuusisto is one of the main attractions of this year’s Zomerconcerten, playing not only the opening concert, but also programs of Paganini, Finnish folk music and Vivaldi.
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| 13-Jun-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Bryn Terfel: Life and soul of the party at Symphony Hall's 21st | Katherine Dixson, katherinedixson.co.uk |
 Here’s a pertinent fact for a classical music website: in 1991, when the wonderful World Wide Web was poised to ensnare anyone with computer access, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall opened its doors to the concert-going public for the first time. It quickly won critical acclaim with artists from across the globe and it’s known as one of the best anywhere. Patrons love it, and tonight’s capacity audience found itself caught up in a spirit of celebration. Striking flowers adorned the stage, and the chrome on Andris Nelsons’ podium seemed to have added sparkle.Read full review... | ||
| 19-May-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Best of British: Elgar, Britten and Vaughan Williams with the CBSO | Katherine Dixson, katherinedixson.co.uk |
 In advance of a nationwide spate of celebration concerts, here was an all-British programme that didn’t so much as mention the Jubilee or the Olympics. And a great job the CBSO made of it, under guest conductor Andrew Manze. His expressive hands not only encouraged beautiful music, but they were a joy to watch too.
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| 5-May-2012 Bridgewater Hall | Elder's apostolic Elgar: The Apostles at the Bridgewater Hall | Andrew H. King |
 Elgar’s oratorios The Apostles (1903) and The Kingdom (1906) are the manifestation of a fascination that he had held since his childhood in Worcester. When alerted by one of his schoolmasters that at the time of their calling into the service of Christ, the twelve apostles were perhaps no more intelligent than those assembled in that school room, Elgar’s imagination swelled and mused on thoughts of the Apostles’ youth and humanity; their faith, their weaknesses, their astonishment in Christ’s miracles and their grief at his crucifixion.Read full review... | ||
| 19-Apr-2012 Colston Hall | BSO Brave Burana: The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at The Colston Hall | Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres |
 If ever a concert could be described as a firework, this was it. The stage was ignited with music and we waited for the best bit - that crucial, beautiful explosion of colour. As part of the Colston Hall’s International Classical Season, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performed the iconic choral work Carmina Burana by Carl Orff (1895-1982). Joining them on stage were the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. Known chiefly now in Britain as the opening music for the TV programme 'The X Factor', Carmina Burana is full of impact and oomph especially when it is heard live.Read full review... | ||
| 12-Apr-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | Gardner's Dreamy Gerontius at the Birmingham Symphony Hall | Andrew H. King |
 Whatever your theological convictions, Christian or otherwise, it is doubtless that the collective elements that make up The Dream of Gerontius contribute to one of the greatest works of both English literature and the English Choral Tradition. The poem, by Cardinal John Henry Newman (Beatified in 2010), received instant success following its initial publication in two parts in the May and June issues of the Catholic periodical The Month in 1865.Read full review... | ||
| 4-Apr-2012 Sage: Hall Two | Diana Moore presents a celebration of Kathleen Ferrier | Jane Shuttleworth |
 In her opening words to this evening’s presentation of Kathleen Ferrier’s life and letters, Diana Moore said that Ferrier was an inspiration to every mezzo-soprano or alto who came after her, and despite its flaws, this concert was clearly a heartfelt tribute to a truly great singer, by one who has learned from her. With her co-presenter Brian Kay, Diana Moore gave an account of Kathleen Ferrier’s life and career, and interspersed the narrative with works from Ferrier’s repertoire.
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| 17-Mar-2012 City Recital Hall Angel Place | The Hilliard Ensemble and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney | Oliver Brett |
 Saturday evening’s concert saw the coming together of two world-class ensembles from opposite ends of the world: Australia’s national orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the world-renowned British vocal group the Hilliard Ensemble. They presented a program which both delighted and challenged players and audience alike, containing music ranging from the medieval period to the 21st century.
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| 15-Mar-2012 Bridgewater Hall | The Hallé Perform Strauss, Holst and Elgar | Rohan Shotton |
 This was a moving evening of relatively underrated, large-scale late romantic music, moving from Strauss’ youthful charm to the wistful eloquence of the mature Elgar.
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| 23-Feb-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic study musical portraiture | Zerbinetta |
 The composers Debussy, Dvořák, Schoenberg and Elgar and aren’t often associated with each other, but they featured together in the first of three concerts in Carnegie Hall with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. The works on the program, it turned out, all dated from the 1890s and all were program music. But Rattle and the orchestra, while technically flawless, only seemed to connect with the material at some points.
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| 15-Feb-2012 Philharmonie: Großer Saal | Poetry in motion with the Berlin Philharmonic | Katherine Dixson, katherinedixson.co.uk |
 Outside, it was as cold as Narnia. But as a lone flute piped the haunting opening phrases of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, we were transported to the warmth of a dreamy afternoon. We were off on a journey around European folk-tales and legends at the end of the 19th century. Debussy’s work was based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, in which, through a stream of imagery, he describes a mythical creature’s post-slumber pursuit of nymphs in forest glades, before succumbing to intoxicating sleep once more.Read full review... | ||
| 29-Jan-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A Delius Celebration at the Royal Festival Hall | Helen Fraser |
 Dario Acosta Photography.jpg) The history of British music reads rather like the old joke about buses: there was no composer of note in the two hundred years after Purcell, and then three came along at once. Whilst Elgar and Vaughan Williams have become household names, the third composer who came along at the end of the nineteenth century has been relegated to the dusty shelves of musical history. Frederick Delius was largely self-taught as a composer; his enigmatic music owes relatively little to the great works of the Western canon and so is often criticized for a lack of perceivable structure.Read full review... | ||
| 26-Jan-2012 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | Elgar and Estonia rub shoulders in Vienna | Zwölftöner |
 Kadri Tali.jpg) Orchestral concerts bookended by Adès and Elgar are nothing new in Britain, but despite both composers being performed with increasing regularity in Vienna over the last few years, this event – to my knowledge – was the first to place them side by side. The powers that be at the RSO Wien and Konzerthaus planned this smartly by programming the accessible violin concerto Concentric Paths, an ideal Adès gateway drug.Read full review... | ||
| 16-Dec-2011 Glenn Gould Studio | Amici’s critics have spoken! | Daniel Frasca |
 Amici’s unique Friday night performance entitled Critics’ Choice entertained requests from three notable music critics and connoisseurs from the greater Toronto area. It also featured a composition by Ezra John Pablo, a grade 12 student in the Claude Watson Arts Program at Earl Haig Secondary School.
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| 9-Nov-2011 Bridgewater Hall | The Hallé, Elder and Gourlay perform Vaughan Williams, Dvořák and Elgar | Rohan Shotton |
 In an unusual piece of programming by today’s standards, this evening’s symphony, Vaughan Williams’ fifth, was played before the interval, with the lighter works, Dvořák’s Wind Serenade and Elgar’s Cockaigne, later in the evening. Perhaps this brought freshness to the music, for there was a supple versatility in the Hallé’s symphony, darting between the heroic, pastoral and folky elements of the piece with exquisite sensitivity to each.
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| 22-Oct-2011 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | Beethoven, Elgar and Wagner with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in soul-cleansing evening | Alan Yu, alanayu.wordpress.com |
 It sounds almost like heresy to describe a Beethoven composition as “light”, but it would be appropriate for the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert on Saturday. His Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68, Pastoral, was like soufflé to the crème brûlée of Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture. Placing the Wagner overture at the end was a clever stroke in programming that prevented the Beethoven work from becoming an anti-climax.
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| 6-Oct-2011 Bridgewater Hall | At the emotional centre - Nicolas Altstaedt | Richard Wilcocks |
 Young German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt was at the emotional centre of the BBC Philharmonic’s all-Elgar concert in Manchester. An award-winner with a fast-developing global reputation, he made the opening four chords of the Cello Concerto exceptionally dramatic, more immediate than usual, as we were plunged into the composer’s agonised responses to the Great War.Read full review... | ||
| 2-Oct-2011 Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall | Gutierrez plays Mozart in Baltimore | Raisa Massuda, mandolinvision.blogspot.com |
| Several years ago I attended a glorious Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert under the baton of a celebrity conductor. A less experienced listener at the time, I was shocked to watch him leading the orchestra in a Rossini overture with his arms folded behind his back. However, I soon became fully aware of the powerful effect that the orchestra achieved in their performance and ever since have been a firm believer, that when it comes to music making, less is always more.
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| 10-Sep-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Balloons, Lang Lang and Jerusalem: it must be The Last Night of the Proms | David Karlin |
 BBC Chris Christodoulou-1.jpg) The Last Night of the Proms isn't really a concert: it's more like going to the cast party for the Proms season. The choir, orchestra and a fair bit of the audience are in tail coats and brightly coloured evening dresses, there's an abundance of balloons, party poppers and things making rude noises, and the hall is transformed by the waving of literally thousands of flags (between numbers, of course, there's proper hush during the music). Not much point in doing a sober, serious, musicological review, then, so here are a dozen memories, in no particular order.
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| 3-Sep-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 65: "A riot of orchestral colour?" | Tom Hancox |
 A "riot of orchestral colour" was promised, but little of it was allowed to flourish.
Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, written during the winter of 1900-01, is a portrait of a busy London, conjuring the hustle and bustle of everyday, metropolitan life. The orchestration, as is typical of Elgar, is often very detailed, the principal threads of the texture being added to momentarily here and there, as a flute highlights this and a tuba underscores that. Jac van Steen, the principal guest conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, exerted tight control over the score, but often at the expense of integration. As a result, the sound was unequal rather than homogeneous, which was further upset by moments of poor orchestral balance, the brass at times overwhelming their colleagues. Yet this was spirited playing that did much to realise the charm of Elgar's score.
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| 2-Aug-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 24: Elgar, Grainger and Strauss | Katy S Austin |
 On paper, Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche seems a non sequitur to choral and orchestral works by Elgar and Grainger. In Proms 24, Elgar’s part-song There is sweet music and Violin Concerto in B minor were at home next to Grainger’s setting of Londonderry Air and likeable In a Nutshell suite. But Strauss’ fifth symphonic poem dwarfed the rest in its capacity to excite, a much-needed dose of exhilaration.
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| 30-Jul-2011 Highclere Castle | Bangs for your Buck - The Battle Proms at Highclere Castle. | Andrew Benson-Wilson |
 I have to confess that an event like this is not within my normal musical radar. My music reviewing and listening is predominantly serious classical, and most of it is for a specialist part of that wide repertoire. So it was a slightly brave, or foolhardy, idea to offer to review one of these musical spectaculars at my local castle. The Battle Proms have been going since 1997 and run at six well-known country house venues during July and August.Read full review... | ||
| 13-Feb-2011 Perth Concert Hall (Horsecross) | The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder and Roderick Williams | Rohan Shotton |
 The Hallé orchestra’s concerts around Britain take them to a number of towns which do not normally get to hear top-quality orchestral concerts, with forthcoming performances in Kendal, Carlisle and Derby and others. The excitement and sense of occasion were therefore quite obvious as the crowds gathered for Sibelius, Mahler and Elgar in Perth Concert Hall.
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