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Pàgina 1 de 3 Custom Search Search home reviews features london gigs classical MASTER NEURODIDÁCTICA ONLINE - TÍTULO PROPIO DE LA U R J C Aplica los Avances Neurocientíficos a un Entorno Educativo ¡Contáctanos! classical and opera reviews latest popular Prom 46: Gurrelieder @ Royal Albert Prom 56: The Hall, London Bohemian Reformation @ Royal 19 August 2017 Albert Hall, London 28 aug 2017 London Gigs: 28 by Barry Creasy | first published: 20 Aug 2017 in reviews August-3 September 2017 Like 18 Tweet 27 aug 2017 Prom 51: BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oramo @ Royal Albert Hall, London 24 aug 2017 Festival Preview: Reading and Leeds 2017 22 aug 2017 The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding 22 aug 2017 Prom 48: A Sir Simon Rattle Patchwork Passion @ (Photo: Chris Christodoulou) Royal Albert Hall, Next month Sir Simon Rattle takes up his post as the London Symphony Orchestra’s London Principal Conductor, and if any doubts remained of this being a perfect match, then 22 aug 2017 Saturday night’s Prom will have dispelled them. EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder rarely gets an outing, largely because of the massive forces 21 aug 2017 involved (it’s in the Mahler 8 bracket: Saturday night’s performance involved 150 instrumentalists and over 300 singers), but also because Schoenberg’s name isn’t necessarily guaranteed to attract an audience, who fear the challenge of a serial piece. The https://www.musicomh.com/classical/reviews -classical/prom -46 -gurrelieder -roy ... 28/ 08/ 2017 Prom 46: Gurrelieder @ Royal Albert Hall, London | Classical and Opera Revi ... Pàgina 2 de 3 work, however, was written over thirteen years, and, despite Schoenberg having developed Prom 46: Gurrelieder the twelve-tone system during that period, its musical language is pure late-Romantic, @ Royal Albert Hall, putting it alongside works by Wagner, Mahler and Richard Strauss. London 20 aug 2017 Rattle exerted a perfect control of the piece, and the LSO responded – squeezing out every drop of its lush orchestration and Romantic sensibility: the scintillating harp-and- woodwind opening; the sumptuous string passages accompanying the early song-cycle; the magnificently solid brass throughout; the hauntingly muted chorus of Wagner tubas before Part 3; the spooky rattling of chains for the Wild Hunt; the tricksy twitchy woodwinds for Klauss’s ravings; the lacy meanderings during the Sprechgesang section; and the cataclysmic orchestral/choral sunrise-finale – surely a contender for six of the best minutes in all music. With such a large orchestra behind them, it is a challenge for all six soloists; needless to say, the women, with their ringing harmonics, fared better than the men. Eva-Maria Westbroek has a massive voice – it is full-blooded and creamy by turns – and it worked supremely well against the vast forces – the final notes of Tove’s ‘Sterne Jubeln’ were magnificent. Karen Cargill’s mezzo is smooth and sumptuous – the sound of velvet – and it added a splendid Tweets by @musicOMH cooing quality to the Wood-Dove’s ‘Tauben von Gurre’. Christopher Purves’ Peasant, and Peter Hoare’s Klauss were both excellent, the former sonorously hefty, the latter giving a musicOMH @musicOMH mercurial, almost- Loge account of the part. Thomas Quasthoff’s Sprechgesang in the Prom 56: The Bohemian Reformation @ Royal penultimate movement was spot-on – full of quirky rises and falls, portraying the fickle Albert Hall, London fairy quality of a dreamy summer night. Most of the solo work, however, falls to Waldemar, musicomh.com/classical/revi … and the demand on the singer is enormous – not least in that in not a few of his numbers, he has to compete with orchestral brass. Simon O’Neill has a wonderful Heldentenor tone to his voice, and it was a delight to listen to in ‘So tanzen die Engel’ and ‘O Wunderliche Tove’, where the orchestra is relatively subdued, but, alas, when the brass kicked in in ‘Ross! Mein Ross!’ and other louder numbers, he didn’t have the power to prevail, and was somewhat swamped (doubtless, though, the BBC sound engineers will have created a more balanced broadcast). It is a pity that the choir gets so little to do in the work – a couple of Wild-Hunt men’s choruses half way through, and the last full-choir movement – but the trio of Simon-Halsey- directed choirs (CBSO Chorus, London Symphony Chorus and the Barcelona-based Orfeó Catalá) on Saturday made a tremendous impression. The alarming ‘Holla’ of the Wild Hunt rising from their graves and the sibilance of ‘Hier ist das Schloss’ were satisfyingly chilling, 8h and – despite the distance between sections of the choir (they were fully ranged in the choir Embed View on Twitter seats either side of the organ) – their co-ordination of the complex internal rhythms of ‘Seht die Sonne’ was exemplary. Just when you felt that the last held note of the piece couldn’t get any louder, the choir’s final increase in volume assured a breathtaking end to an outstanding performance. Like Page Sign Up Related Be the first of your friends to like this Sir Simon Rattle MP3s or CDs Sir Simon Rattle on Spotify https://www.musicomh.com/classical/reviews -classical/prom -46 -gurrelieder -roy ... 28/ 08/ 2017 John Adams packs a punch in a Peckham car park, plus all the best of the BBC ... Pàgina 1 de 56 Login (https://secure.telegraph.co.uk/secure/login?redirectTo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fmusic% 2Fconcerts%2Fbbc-proms-2017-reviews-best-proms-far%2F) Register (https://secure.telegraph.co.uk/secure/registration?WT.mc_id=tmg_headernav&redirectTo=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fmusic%2Fconcerts%2Fbbc-proms-2017-reviews-best-proms-far%2F) Subscribe (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/subscriptions/sub-bar/?WT.mc_id=tmg_headernav) ALL SECTIONS (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Culture Music More › Cultu … › Music › Concerts John Adams packs a punch in a Peckham car park, plus all the best of the BBC 2017 Proms so far Tuba player Sasha Koushk-Jalali performing with Bold Tendancies CREDIT: BBC http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/bbc -proms -2017 -reviews -best -proms ... 28/ 08/ 2017 John Adams packs a punch in a Peckham car park, plus all the best of the BBC ... Pàgina 2 de 56 By Ivan Hewett , CHIEF CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC ; Neil McCormick , CHIEF MUSIC CRITIC ; Rupert Christiansen and John Allison 27 AUGUST 2017 • 6:29PM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/bbc -proms -2017 -reviews -best -proms ... 28/ 08/ 2017 John Adams packs a punch in a Peckham car park, plus all the best of the BBC ... Pàgina 3 de 56 his is The Telegraph's regularly updated guide to the 2017 BBC Proms T (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/proms/) , with news and reviews of all the best concerts. Learn how to book tickets and how to watch on TV here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/do-bbc-proms-start-will-performing-can-get- tickets/) . Hear all the Proms again on the BBC iPlayer. All Proms are broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Proms at... Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park: John Adams packs a punch in Peckham ★★★★☆ Level 8 of a brutalist concrete London car park straight out of A Clockwork Orange wouldn’t be anyone’s first choice for a classical orchestral venue. But here we were in large numbers, on a hot afternoon of the bank holiday weekend, courtesy of the BBC Proms outreach programme, to hear a Bach Prelude, a new choral work and John Adams’s epic Harmonielehre. Paid content Recommended by (http://www.outbrain.com/what-is/default/en) This game will rock your world! (https://plarium.com/play/en/throne/009_village_hybrid_g? Throne: Kingdom at War plid=107158&pxl=outbrain&) Where the World's Billionaires Live Mansion Global by Dow Jones (http://www.mansionglobal.com/? mod=mansiongl_homepage_outbrain_Oct1) Behind it all was the Multi-Story Orchestra, an outfit established in 2011 to take music to unfamiliar venues. An abandoned supermarket facility in “vibrant” Peckham with a celebrated vodka bar on its flat roof and a reputation for hosting funky arts events has become its headquarters and although the acoustics of Level 8 are less than ideal – not least because of exposure to passing trains and blaring sirens – the empty expanse does have resonance and atmosphere. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/bbc -proms -2017 -reviews -best -proms ... 28/ 08/ 2017 John Adams packs a punch in a Peckham car park, plus all the best of the BBC ... Pàgina 4 de 56 It also draws an audience far younger and more “diverse” than the one that now inhabits the Royal Albert Hall – and for that alone, this 70-minute concert, ably compèred by Tom Service, was exhilarating. I’m baffled, however, by the decision to start with Granville Bantock’s soupy arrangement of Bach’s chorale prelude Sleepers, awake (Wachet auf), which had the opposite effect to that urged by its title and reduced the wind and brass counterpoint to mush. More engaging was I am I say, a short new piece on ecological themes composed collaboratively by the orchestra’s co-founder Kate Whitley for the newly formed Multi-Story Youth Choir, largely made up of primary schoolchildren from the Peckham area. They sang a mellifluous chant lamenting the perils facing our planet with gusto and precision, bolstered by professionals Ruby Hughes and Michael Sumuel. But the meat of the concert was a strong performance of one of John Adams’s most substantial and ambitious orchestral works. Harmonielehre has established itself as one of the modern classics of American music and its cosmic ambition – referencing late Romantic masters such as Wagner and Mahler – still packs a terrific punch.